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'Partners" 


"Laborers  Together 


A  Study  of  Southern  Baptist 
Missions  in  China 


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By 
MARGARET  McRAE  LACKEY 


ILLUSTRATED 


New  York  Chicago 

Fleming    H.   Revell    Company 

London  and  Edinburgh 


Copyright,  192 1,  by 
FLEMING  H.  REVELL  COMPANY 


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To 

MY  PARTNER  OFER  THERE 
WHO  BADE  ME  WRITE 


Preface 

(Please  Read  It) 

"^^"^UR  mission  study  books  are  all  so  fine  and 
■       1   so  helpful;  but  may  we  not  have  one  on 

^'-^    Southern  Baptist  Foreign  Missions  next  ? " 

A  call  to  this  effect  has  come  to  us  many  times  dur- 
ing the  past  two  years.  When  the  answer  is  given 
that  definite  information  is  found  in  the  splendid  Re- 
ports presented  to  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention, 
and  printed  in  the  Minutes;  that  it  is  also  found  in 
Royal  Service  and  Home  and  Foreign  fields,  the  re- 
ply comes,  "  But  we  need  it  compiled  for  us,  with 
more  information  given  regarding  each  field  than  we 
can  take  time  to  gather  for  ourselves." 

This  little  book  is  an  attempted  answer  to  these  calls 
regarding  our  Work  in  China. 

The  information  has  been  gleaned  from  every 
source  we  could  possibly  lay  hands  on.  We  should  not 
miss  the  truth  very  far  if  we  placed  quotation  marks 
from  beginning  to  end. 

However  special  thanks  are  due  our  Foreign  Board 
secretaries,  Drs.  Love  and  Ray ;  Royal  Service;  Home 
and  Foreign  Fields;  The  Wuchow  Baptist  Missioner; 
Sherwood  Eddy;  and  last,  but  by  no  means  least,  the 
missionaries  on  the  fields  who  have  sent  such  splendid 

7 


8  PEEFACE 

material  in  the  shape  of  incidents,  history,  maps  and 

pictures. 

The  work  of  compihng  has  been  indeed  a  labour  of 

love.     God  grant  the  result  may  prove  a  clarion  call 

to  Service. 

M.  M.  L. 
Jackson,  Miss, 


Contents 

I.  Partners 13 

II.  Problems 18 

III.  Some  Definitions 27 

IV.  The  South  China  Mission        ,        .        .33 

V.  The  South  China  Mission  (G7«//««^^)      .       53 

VI.  The  Central  China  Mission     ...      66 

VII.  The  Interior  China  Mission     .        .        .81 

VIII.  The  North  China  Mission        ...      93 

IX.  Her  Privileges 117 


Illustrations 


Partners  " Frontispiece 

FACING  PAGE 

42 


Dr.  R.  £.  Beddoe  and  Family       .... 

Two  Chinese  Saints 

Little  Girls  of  China  Loving  Dolls  From  America 

Group  op  Bible  Women         ..... 

Blind  Woman  Weaving         ..... 

Mesdames   Hearn,  Leggett   and   Larson,  **  The   Anti 
Foot  Binding  Society  "  .... 

A  Missionary  Enjoying  Her  Library  on  a  Cold  Snowy 
Day 


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100 
no 
no 

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124 


XI 


PARTNERS 

"  foreign  Missions  long  ago  passed  the  experimental  stage  and 
became  established  as  a  regular  Business — the  Business  of  spread- 
ing the  Gospel  to  the  ends  of  the  earth" 

WE  are  equal  Partners  in  a  great  Business 
Concern,  She  and  I.  She  looks  after  the 
Foreign  Branch  and  I  the  one  at  Home. 

Since  we  are  equally  responsible  for  the  Business, 
it  behooves  us  to  be  equally  intelligent  concerning  It. 
We  both  must  have  knowledge  and  education  pertain- 
ing to  all  Its  phases. 

She  is  well  acquainted  with  the  Home  Branch.  She 
obtained  this  information  before  She  ever  undertook 
the  Work  Over  Yonder. 

I,  however,  need  to  know  many  things  about  our 
Foreign  Branch.  I  have  never  been  over  there.  And 
unless  I  give  special  heed  to  the  information  She  sup- 
plies me  with,  I  have  but  a  vague  conception  of  the 
Business.  There  are  conditions  which  She  must  meet, 
and  problems  which  She  must  solve,  that  I  know  noth- 
ing whatever  about  except  as  She  tells  me. 

And  who  is  She,  this  Partner  of  mine,  who  with 
courage  bom  of  deep  conviction,  is  so  bravely  carry- 
ing on  the  Work  that  we  are  both  equally  responsible 
for? 

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14  "  LABOREES  TOGETHER ' ' 

She  represents  every  woman  who  has  gone  out  un- 
der the  auspices  of  the  Foreign  Mission  Board  of  the 
Southern  Baptist  Convention.  By  whatever  name 
She  may  be  called,  or  whatever  position  She  is  re- 
quired to  fill  She  is  still  my  Partner.  And  She  is 
faithful  to  her  every  trust.  Dr.  J.  F.  Love  while  over 
there  was  impressed  to  send  back  this  word  concern- 
ing Her  and  Her  Work: 

"  Everywhere  I  have  gone,  I  have  found  the 
women  among  the  most  enthusiastic  workers.  I  often 
think  that  their  whole  hearts  are  given  to  the  little 
tots  in  the  kindergartens,  to  the  girls  in  the  boarding- 
schools,  to  the  women  in  Bible  training  and  to  evangel- 
istic work  in  country  districts.  The  woman  mission- 
ary in  China  is  like  her  sister  in  America,  possessed 
of  missionary  intelligence  and  enthusiasm,  and  going 
about  her  work  whole-heartedly.  .  .  .  It  is  per- 
fectly evident  to  me  now  that  the  Gospel  of  Christ 
could  never  have  been  brought  with  full  effectiveness 
into  the  homes  of  the  East,  and  that  Christianity  could 
never  have  exhibited  here  to  the  eyes  of  all  the  people 
its  peculiar  feminine  graces  without  these  women  and 
the  transformed  lives  of  Chinese  womanhood,  which 
have  thus  been  brought  under  the  power  of  the  Gos- 
pel." 

And  who  am  /,  Her  Partner,  who  is  privileged  to 
look  after  the  Home  Branch,  the  Base  of  supplies? 

/  represent  every  woman  of  whatever  age  within 
the  bounds  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention  terri- 
tory, who  names  the  Name  of  Him  as  Lord  and  Mas- 
ter.   As  He  has  laid  it  upon  Her  to  "  go,"  so  He  has 


PAETNEES  15 

made  me  equally  responsible  not  only  for  Her  going, 
but  for  Her  upkeep. 

Hence,  I  need  to  know  in  a  very  definite  way  some- 
thing of  conditions  under  which  She  labours  to-day. 
And  these  conditions,  by  the  way,  are  vastly  different 
from  what  they  were  when  Foreign  Missions  began 
one  hundred  years  ago. 

She  has  kept  abreast  of  the  times;  while  I,  alas,  am 
still  thinking  about  the  Work  in  terms  of  that  far- 
away day.  "  Foreign  Missions  long  ago  passed  the 
experimental  stage  and  became  established  as  a  regu- 
lar Business,  the  Business  of  spreading  the  Gospel  to 
the  ends  of  the  earth." 

The  object  of  this  little  book  is  to  give  us  a  more 
definite  idea  of  Her  end  of  this  Great  Business  Con- 
cern. Herein  we  learn  somewhat  of  the  work  She  is 
doing  Over  There  in  the  home,  the  church,  the  school- 
room, kindergarten,  hospital,  on  street  corner  and  far 
afield.  We  are  to  learn  something  of  Her  equipment 
— or  lack  of  it ! — and  of  Her  preparation  for  the  posi- 
tion. We  hope  to  enter  more  intimately  into  Her  de- 
sires, and  learn  how  to  satisfy  some  of  Her  longings. 
"  The  best  way  to  stimulate  interest  in  missions  is  to 
give  folks  detailed  information  about  mission  work." 

As  we  study  these  matters  concerning  Her  Work 
let  us  remember  that  in  many  instances  the  tale  is  but 
half  told  herein,  because  She  is  labouring  side  by  side 
with  husband,  brother  or  friend,  without  whose  ef- 
forts Her  own  would  be  futile. 

This  little  volume  deals  with  our  Work  in  China 
alone.    It  was  the  idea  of  the  writer  to  introduce  our 


16  **  LABOEEES  TOGETHER '' 

women  missionaries  on  each  one  of  our  fields  to  those 
who  know  them  not,  or  know  them  only  in  a  vague  in- 
definite way.  But  as  the  work  has  grown  it  seemed 
wise  to  deal  with  China  alone  at  present. 

My  Partner  will  doubtless  find  many  errors  in  these 
pages.  She  has  tried  most  faithfully  to  give  definite 
information.  From  each  Field  She  has  sent  items  of 
special  interest  in  regard  to  the  Business,  but  the  very 
Bigness  of  the  Concern  Over  There  overwhelms  me. 
I  cannot  grasp  the  situation  as  it  really  is. 

Even  my  imperfect  interpretation,  however,  makes 
me  realize  something  of  my  indebtedness  to  Her. 
And  if,  from  the  perusal  of  these  lessons,  there  shall 
be  those  who  hear  the  call  to  "  Go  over  and  help 
Her,"  and  will  respond— oh,  how  well  worth  while 
will  have  been  Her  efforts  to  send  the  Message,  and 
mine  to  spread  it  abroad! 

This  book  is  not  intended  as  a  history  of  Yester- 
day's achievements.  If  it  were  that,  how  the  pages 
would  be  illumined  with  Her  marvellous  undertak- 
ings under  seemingly  insurmountable  difficulties! 
How  darkened  with  the  miserable  failures  of  the 
Home  Base  to  furnish  supplies !  It  is  rather  a  record 
of  To-Day — a  Day-book  as  it  were — giving  in  as  con- 
cise form  as  possible  Her  labours  of  love  right  now. 
And  then  because  it  is  impossible  to  separate  them 
from  this  present,  there  is  given  something  of  Her 
dreams  of  to-morrow.  And  therein  You  and  I  oh, 
Sister  Mine,  in  this  Home  Land,  play  a  most  im- 
portant part.  For  to  us  She  is  looking  in  a  large 
measure  for  the  fulfillment  of  these  Dreams. 


PAETNERS  17 

We  are  equal  Partners,  She  and  I,  in  a  Great  Busi- 
ness Concern.  But  we  have  another  Partner.  Shall 
we,  with  all  reverence,  speak  of  Him  as  our  Silent 
Partner?  His  interest  in  the  Business  is  far  greater 
than  ours,  in  that  He  selects  each  field,  furnishes  all 
the  capital,  guards  carefully  every  interest  both  here 
and  there,  and  demands  that  She  and  I  be  equally 
faithful,  equally  intelligent  and  equally  concerned. 

Shall  I  fail? 

QUESTIONS 

1.  What  is  your  opinion  of  Foreign  Missions? 

2.  What  degree  of  personal  responsibility  do  you  feel  for  the 

Partner  over  there? 

3.  Wherein     do     Foreign   Missions    differ   from   State   and 

Home  Missions? 

4.  What  is  the  Great  Commission? 


II 

PROBLEMS 

"Opportunities  are  coming  every  day,  and  we  are  unable  to 
grasp  them  because  of  no  trained  women  workers." 

WHAT  impression  is  conveyed  to  your  mind 
when  you  hear  that  some  one  is  going  as 
a  missionary  to  China? 
Is  there  visioned  before  you  a  dim  outline  of  that 
great  country,  shaped  somewhat  Hke  an  old-fashioned 
teapot,  which  has  always  been  such  a  puzzle  to  you 
because  of  the  many  contradictory  statements  you 
have  heard  concerning  it?  And  do  you  dismiss  this 
outgoing  missionary  from  your  mind,  under  the  im- 
pression that  she  will  shortly  be  swallowed  up  in  this 
dark  immensity,  to  be  heard  from  but  rarely,  until 
she  is  all  but  forgotten  ? 

When  we  deal  with  China  we  are  dealing  with  a 
land  that  is  vast  in  extent  and  diverse  in  conditions. 
Could  we  pick  her  up  and  place  her  over  the  United 
States  she  would  far  more  than  cover  it.  If  wc  could 
bring  her  dense  population  into  this  same  territory, 
we  would  have  one- fourth  of  all  the  people  of  the 
earth  within  our  borders;  for  out  of  every  four  per- 
sons in  the  world  one  of  them  is  a  Chinese. 

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PE0BLEM8  19 

But  neither  her  population  nor  her  size  constitutes 
China's  problem.  Some  one  has  said  that  China  is 
not  a  nation,  but  a  vanishing  civilization.  China  can- 
not be  a  nation  in  the  true  sense  of  the  word  because 
her  vast  aggregation  of  people,  united  only  by  a  nat- 
ural boundary  line,  are  a  conglomeration  of  homo- 
geneous elements.  What  is  wholly  true  in  one  section 
of  China  may  not  be  at  all  true  in  another.  "  Not 
only  do  provinces  of  China  differ  markedly  in  natural 
features,  but  the  people  also  differ  physically,  men- 
tally, and  spiritually.  .  .  .  Every  part  of  China 
has  its  own  characteristics,  and  you  might  as  well  try 
to  describe  the  typical  European  as  the  typical 
Chinese." 

These  conditions  necessarily  present  a  number  of 
problems  to  the  missionary.  Some  few  of  these,  if 
understood  by  us,  will  enable  us  to  render  a  more  in- 
telligent and  helpful  sympathy  to  our  Partner  over 
there. 

Problem  I:  Lack  of  Intercommunication.  China 
is  sadly  lacking  in  highways,  railroads,  canals  and 
navigable  rivers.  There  are  in  the  entire  country  per- 
haps not  more  than  a  thousand  miles  of  good  roads. 
"  The  rest  are  rough  trails  or  slippery  footpaths,  wind- 
ing among  the  rice  fields  and  climbing  by  century 
worn  steps  over  the  mountains,  fit  only  for  the  pony 
or  the  wheelbarrow  or  the  calloused  feet  of  the 
coolie." 

When  Miss  Pearl  Caldwell  was  home  on  her  last 
furlough  some  friends  proposed  to  give  her  funds  to 
purchase  a  car.     She  asked  instead  for  a  mule  and 


20  '  *  L ABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

cart  since  the  car  would  be  of  no  service  to  her  in  the 
field. 

Two  railroads  are  partly  completed,  running  from 
north  to  south.  Several  others  beginning  near  the 
coast  and  running  inward  are  only  partly  realized  as 
yet.  Less  than  eight  thousand  miles  of  railroad  are 
built  in  the  entire  country. 

"  During  a  dark  day  in  the  American  Civil  War, 
President  Lincoln  stood  before  a  large  map  of  the 
United  States  seeking  to  find  a  railroad  system  which 
would  back  up  a  drive  into  the  heart  of  the  South. 
Baffled,  he  turned  to  a  master  railway  builder  who 
was  helping  the  government  organize  transportation: 
'  Yes,  Mr,  President,'  said  the  engineer,  '  if  most  of 
our  railroads  did  not  run  from  east  to  west,  we  would 
have  no  war  between  the  North  and  the  South.'  " 
Transportation  would  have  given  a  unity  of  interests 
which  would  not  have  been  broken. 

So  it  is  with  China  to-day.  Railroads  made  pos- 
sible the  United  States  reaching  from  the  Atlantic  to 
the  Pacific.  A  lack  of  similar  railroad  development 
in  China  has  been  threatening  the  future  of  approxi- 
mately four  hundred  million  people  for  a  decade. 
Two-thirds  of  China's  troubles  may  be  laid  to  the 
fact  that  the  Chinese  Republic  has  over  three  times 
the  population  of  the  United  States,  but  has  the  rail- 
way mileage  of  the  State  of  Wisconsin.  China  has 
but  one  mile  of  railway  to  each  four  hundred  and 
sixty  square  miles  of  territory;  in  the  United  States 
we  have  a  mile  of  railway  to  each  twelve  square  miles 
of  land. 


PE0BLEM9  21 

For  about  six  hundred  miles  in  the  interior  the 
Yangtsze  River  is  navigable.  There  are  a  few  other 
short  navigable  rivers  and  some  canals.  Along  the 
coast  "  vessels  creep  from  port  to  port,  in  much  fear 
of  pirates  and  typhoons." 

"  The  economic  effects  of  this  cannot  be  estimated. 
Imagine  the  United  States  without  a  line  of  railroad 
west  of  the  Missouri  and  the  lower  Mississippi.  Sup- 
pose the  greatest  wealth  of  this  country,  so  far  as 
natural  resources  go,  was  only  partly  tapped  by  river 
communications;  that  the  bulk  of  the  economic  life 
of  these  States  rested  on  transportation  by  packhorse, 
by  men  pushing  wheelbarrows  up  hill  and  down  dale, 
by  slow  moving  junks  winding  hundreds  of  miles  to 
their  destination. 

"  These  are  the  conditions  under  which  China  is 
labouring.  Millions  have  been  starving  along  the 
lower  Yangtsze  when  wheat  could  not  find  a  market 
in  Szechuan,  a  thousand  miles  west.  Mineral  wealth, 
which  has  tempted  the  powers  for  a  decade,  remains 
locked  behind  the  Yangtsze  gorges  because  China's 
west  has  not  been  tapped.  Revolution  and  turmoil 
and  maladministration  have  been  rampant  in  these 
Chinese  provinces  because  the  country  has  such  vast- 
ness  without  the  means  needed  to  control  it  in  this  day 
and  age." 

One  can  readily  see  from  these  facts  what  a  prob- 
lem the  missionary  meets  in  regard  to  transportation. 
One  does  not  wonder  that  "  most  Chinese  never  get 
twenty  miles  from  their  birthplace,  and  are  as  sus- 
picious of  a  strange  Chinese  as  of  a  foreigner."    Nor 


22  "  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE 


>> 


does  one  marvel  so  much  that  our  sainted  Lottie  Moon 
had  to  see  her  beloved  people  die  by  thousands  from 
the  famine,  when  less  than  three  hundred  miles  away 
food  was  superabundant. 

Problem  II:  The  Lack  of  a  Common  Spoken 
Language.  While  all  China  speaks  Chinese,  yet  there 
are  as  many  different  dialects  as  there  are  languages 
in  Europe.  Missionaries  learning  one  dialect  often 
feel  their  limitations  because  of  their  inability  to  serve 
other  than  their  immediate  field.  Within  the  bounds 
of  our  South  China  Mission  three  distinct  dialects  are 
spoken.  "  Even  the  same  dialect  varies  so  much  with 
the  locality  that  people  living  a  hundred  miles  apart 
can  hardly  understand  each  other." 

There  are  more  than  eighteen  dialects  represented 
by  the  student  body  of  Shanghai  Baptist  College. 
Shanghai  and  Soochow  are  two  hours  apart  by  train, 
yet  the  people  speak  almost  a  different  dialect;  Hang- 
chow  another  dialect,  and  Ningpo  still  another;  and 
all  the  little  villages  in  between  have  their  own  special 
jargon — all  of  this  in  one  little  section  of  Central 
China  Field. 

"  Therefore  was  the  name  of  it  called  Babel  be- 
cause Jehovah  did  there  confound  the  language  of  all 
the  earth"  (Gen.  11:9).  "How  strikingly  are  we 
reminded  of  that  confounding  of  tongues  in  this  land 
of  many  dialects.  Recently  at  the  Seminary  Chapel 
exercises  in  Canton  an  address  was  given  in  Canton- 
ese, announcements  were  made  by  the  President  in 
Mandarin,  and  a  prayer  in  Hakka.  The  hymns  were 
sung  by  the  students  in  these  three  dialects  from  the 


PEOBLEMS  23 

same  book,  all  blending  their  voices  in  praise  and  wor- 
ship to  God  who  understands  them  all. 

**  At  the  welcome  reception  given  Mrs.  Graves,  on 
her  return  from  America,  an  original  form  of  enter- 
tainment was  the  greeting  of  their  beloved  principal 
by  the  schoolgirls,  in  five  tongues.  A  girl  from  the 
Mandarin,  Hakka  and  Sun  Ning  sections  spoke  in 
their  dialects,  while  one  from  Swatow  and  one  from 
Hongkong  spoke  in  Hok  Lo  and  English,  each  in 
turn  being  interpreted  in  Cantonese  by  other  stu- 
dents"  (Dr.  George  W.  Leavell). 

Have  you  and  I,  my  Sister,  any  such  problem  as 
this  to  contend  with  in  our  Home  Land,  in  telling  the 
story  of  Jesus  and  His  love? 

Problem  III:  Lack  of  Bquipment,  "  The  fact  of 
so  much  work  to  be  done  and  no  actual  equipment 
with  which  to  do  it,"  is  the  reply  of  one  missionary  as 
to  what  is  her  greatest  problem.  "  I  would  have  you 
remember  that  many  of  your  sisters  in  China  are 
working  without  equipment  to  make  their  work  ef- 
fective," writes  Dr.  Love  from  the  far  East;  and  he 
adds :  "  I  am  going  home  to  entreat  my  brothers  and 
sisters  to  increase  their  gifts  to  foreign  missions 
speedily  in  order  that  our  missionaries  may  not  ex- 
pend their  lives  in  vain  because  we  do  not  furnish 
them  with  material  equipment  through  which  they 
can  make  their  efforts  tell  for  Christ."  .  .  . 
"  Chapels  in  Kwangsi  are  as  scarce  as  stars  in  day- 
time," says  Rev.  Wai  Tung  Ping,  Chaplain  of  the 
Stout  Memorial  Hospital.  When  we  remember  tliat 
Kwangsi  is  larger  than  Alabama  and  Mississippi  and 


24  ''  LABORERS  TOGETHER '» 

contains  ten  times  the  people  of  these  two  States,  we 
get  some  idea  of  the  lack  of  equipment. 

This  lack  causes  other  disastrous  results.  Says  one: 
"  How  one  Baptist  missionary  can  work  to  any  ad- 
vantage in  a  field  with  four  million  souls  scattered 
over  an  area  of  about  three  thousand  square  miles,  to 
have  time  to  do  the  things  that  have  to  be  done,  while 
many  other  things  have  to  be  put  off  never  to  be  done, 
is  a  problem." 

"  Our  Mission  schools  in  South  China  are  doing 
a  great  work,  and  some  of  them  are  carrying  on  un- 
der trying  circumstances.  In  Ying  Tak,  Miss  Sandlin 
has  one  hundred  girls  and  women  crowded  into  a 
building  that  was  formerly  a  residence  for  one  fam- 
ily. And  the  recitation  buildings  are  almost  as  nice 
as  some  of  the  garages  the  farmers  in  the  U.  S.  A. 
use  for  their  cars.  But  there  is  this  difference.  The 
garages  are  dry  while  these  recitation  rooms  some- 
times stand  several  feet  in  water  from  the  river  floods. 
Last  fall  Brother  Gallimore  started  with  thirteen  boys 
in  his  school  in  Ying  Tak  and  now  he  has  more  than 
forty-five.  These  are  crowded  into  space  that  would 
accommodate  about  half  a  dozen  American  students  " 
(Rex  Ray). 

Problem  IV:  Lack  of  Bducation.  The  problem 
of  illiteracy  is  by  no  means  peculiar  to  China.  The 
less  we  Southern  Baptists  say  on  that  subject  perhaps 
the  better  until  we  mend  our  own  ways.  But  the  prob- 
lem needs  our  consideration  in  order  that  we  may  the 
better  understand  the  situation  of  our  Partner  over 
there.    It  is  said  that  there  are  many  churches  among 


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all  denominations  in  China  in  which  no  one  is  able  to 
read  except  the  pastor,  and  he  with  much  difficulty. 
It  is  not  strange  that  as  soon  as  She  gets  her  bearings, 
She  sends  forth  an  earnest  plea  for  teachers  and 
teaching  equipment. 

Problem  V:  American  and  British  Commercial- 
ism. "  A  cigarette  in  the  mouth  of  every  Chinese  " 
is  the  slogan  of  a  British- American  Tobacco  Firm 
doing  large  business  in  China.  It  seems  almost  to 
have  been  realized.  "  It  is  pitiful  to  see  the  men, 
women  and  children  smoking  so  much.  It  is  disgust- 
ing to  see  strong  young  Americans  and  Englishmen 
out  here  preying  upon  these  poor  Chinese  people  to 
make  money  out  of  them  through  the  tobacco  busi- 
ness." 

To  this  tobacco  curse  imported  from  "  Christian  " 
America  and  England,  may  be  added  the  whiskey 
traffic,  the  gambling  den  and  other  forms  of  vice  that 
our  Partner  finds  it  most  difficult  to  deal  with. 

There  are  other,  many  other  problems  facing  our 
Partner  over  there.  She  rarely  speaks  of  them.  She 
never  utters  one  note  of  complaint  against  them.  She 
solves  some  of  them  through  sheer  will  power;  others 
in  her  closet  on  her  knees,  and  others — she  submits  to 
day  by  day  and  year  by  year,  hoping,  trusting,  pray- 
ing that  sometime  our  eyes  will  be  opened,  our  purse 
strings  loosened  and  our  feet  swift  to  help. 

QUESTIONS 

1.  How  docs  China  compare  in  size  to  the  United  States? 

2.  How  do  the  two  countries  compare  in  population? 


26  ''  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE ' ' 

3.  How  does  the  lack  of  railways  and  highways  interfere  with 

China's  advancement? 

4.  Do  all  our  missionaries  in  China  learn  the  same  language? 

5.  What   equipment  is  needful   for  the  carrying  on  of   the 

mission  work? 

6.  Is  education  as  popular  in  China  as  we  have  been  led  to 

believe? 

7.  How  has  American  commercialism  interfered  with  Chinese 

Christianity? 


Ill 

SOME  DEFINITIONS 

"  The  whole  history  of  China  points  to  her  imperative  need  of 
a  truly  Christian  civilisation.  The  doors  of  opportunity  are  wide 
open  to  the  forces  of  moral  righteousness,  social  service,  and 
Christian  civilisation/* 

THERE  are  conditions  that  are  common  to  all 
mission  fields.  It  would  require  too  much 
space  to  specify  in  each  case  just  what  the 
work  is  and  how  it  is  done.  Hence  this  lesson,  re- 
garding important  matters  in  all  fields,  is  introduced 
just  here  in  order  to  save  much  repetition  in  future 
lessons. 

As  has  been  stated  China  is  larger  than  the  United 
States  and  her  population  three  and  one-half  times 
greater.  This  enormous  multitude  of  people  is  not 
spread  evenly  throughout  the  whole  country,  however. 
There  are  some  sections  where  comparatively  few  peo- 
ple live ;  this  because  the  climate  is  too  cold  or  too  arid, 
or  because  the  country  is  too  mountainous. 

China  is  divided  into  eighteen  Provinces  or  Dis- 
tricts, corresponding  to  our  States.  (See  map  of 
China.)  Three  of  these  Districts,  Tibet,  Turkestan, 
and  Mongolia,  occupy  about  half  the  territory.  The 
population  in  these  three  is  sparse,  when  compared  to 
other  Districts.     This  means  that  vast  hordes  are 

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28  "  LABOEERS  TOGETHER '' 

crowded  together  on  the  river  flood  plains  in  the  south 
and  east.  This  providential  arrangement  becomes  our 
great  opportunity.  The  people  are  where  they  may  be 
reached  even  though  communication  by  railroads, 
highways  and  waterways  is  wanting. 

Out  of  the  eighteen  Districts  Southern  Baptists  have 
planted  work  in  six.  Four  of  these  are  adjacent  to 
the  seacoast.  The  two  remaining  are  geographically 
not  far  from  the  coast,  but  because  of  the  lack  of  trav- 
elling facilities,  are  many  hours  away. 

In  the  six  Districts  where  we  have  missionaries  lo- 
cated there  are  five  times  as  many  people  as  are  in  all 
of  our  Southern  Baptist  territory.  In  one  of  these 
Districts — Shantung — there  are  six  million  more  peo- 
ple than  there  are  in  the  Southern  States.  This  Dis- 
trict is  larger  than  Virginia  and  Maryland,  yet  it  has 
twelve  times  the  population  of  the  two  combined.  An- 
other of  the  Districts,  Honan,  is  nearly  as  large  as 
Tennessee  and  Kentucky  combined,  and  has  seven 
times  the  combined  population  of  the  two  States. 
Kiangsu,  about  the  size  of  Georgia,  has  in  its  border 
nine  times  as  many  people  as  are  in  Georgia.  Kwang 
Tung  and  Kwang  Si  are  together  larger  than  Louisi- 
ana, Mississippi  and  Alabama  combined;  and  their 
combined  population  is  more  than  nine  times  that  of 
these  three  States. 

This  appalling  array  of  figures,  placed  here  in  the 
comparative  degree,  is  presented  for  the  purpose  of 
making  us  pause  and  think.  Into  such  vast  multitudes 
of  humanity,  which  is  overshadowed  by  the  blackness 
of  heathen  darkness,  we  have  thrust  our  Partner,  and 


SOME  DEFINITIONS  29 

bade  Her  look  after  the  Business  that  belongs  equally 
to  us  both. 

Not  only  is  it  necessary  that  we  have  some  knowl- 
edge of  the  geography  and  population  of  the  country; 
but  there  are  certain  terms  used  in  connection  with  the 
Business  over  there,  that  are  perfectly  familiar  to 
those  who  know  the  Work,  yet  are  confusing  to  some. 
Let  us  make  a  study  of  some  of  these  terms. 

Compound.  A  "  Compound "  is  a  walled-in  en- 
closure where  the  buildings  belonging  to  the  denomi- 
nation stand.  Such  as  a  church,  schools,  homes,  and 
sometimes  hospitals  or  dispensaries.  One  can  readily 
see  how  in  a  heathen  country  there  is  wisdom  in  group- 
ing these  together.  There  have  been  occasions  when 
the  compound  proved  a  means  of  defense,  not  only  to 
missionaries,  but  to  native  Christians  as  well. 

Some  of  these  compounds  occupy  quite  a  big  space 
of  ground.  The  one  in  Canton  covers  twenty  acres. 
Shanghai  has  two  Southern  Baptist  Compounds. 

One  must  not  get  the  impression,  however,  that  all 
our  mission  work  is  confined  to  the  compound.  This 
is  the  center,  as  it  were,  round  which  the  rest  of  the 
work  is  builded,  or  rather  from  which  it  radiates. 

Station.  A  "  Station  "  is  a  strategic  center  from 
which  the  Gospel  spreads  by  precept  and  by  example 
through  the  city,  surrounding  villages,  and  country 
places.  The  missionaries  live  in  these  cities,  and  by 
teaching,  preaching  and  medical  work,  minister  to  the 
people  in  the  section  for  which  the  "  Station  "  is  re- 
sponsible. 

Out  Stations,     "  Out  Stations  "  are  cities  and  vil- 


30  "  LABOBEES  TOGETHER '» 

lages  where  churches,  chapels  and  schools  are  estab- 
lished and  are  in  charge  of  the  native  workers,  under 
the  supervision  of  the  "  station,"  visited  as  often  as 
possible  by  the  missionary  in  charge.  Out  stations 
sometimes  cover  territory  as  large  as  some  of  our 
Southern  States. 

Missionary's  Assistant,  This  term  is  used  in  this 
book  to  designate  the  wife  of  the  Missionary  who 
works  on  the  field. 

Of  course  She  is  as  truly  a  missionary  as  is  her 
husband.  She  is  appointed  by  our  Foreign  Mission 
Board  just  as  he  is.  This  deference  is  given  him  here 
because  upon  his  sympathetic  care  and  consideration 
largely  depends  Her  efficiency. 

Because  the  labours  of  all  Missionary's  Assistants 
are  so  nearly  the  same,  it  is  impossible  to  repeat  after 
each  name  the  varied  and  multitudinous  matters  that 
fall  to  the  lot  of  each.  This  one  example,  given  by 
Dr.  Love  in  regard  to  the  Lakes,  answers,  not  for  one 
missionary  and  his  wife,  but  for  all  of  them: 

"  Let  not  any  one  suppose  that  this  work  (referring 
to  work  among  the  lepers),  as  great  a  service  as  It  is, 
comprises  that  which  they  are  doing.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  It  Is  only  a  small  part  of  the  great  service  which 
they  are  rendering  In  the  Name  of  Christ.  They  have 
under  their  supervision  in  Canton  and  more  than 
twenty  other  cities  and  towns,  twenty-seven  churches 
and  chapels,  and  nearly  that  many  schools  for  boys 
and  girls,  with  more  than  sixty  Chinese  preachers, 
teachers,  Bible  Women  and  colporteurs.  It  requires 
incessant  labour  and  the  hardships  of  travel  by  river 


SOME  DEFINITIONS  81 

boat,  sanpan  and  across  country  in  the  rudest  and  most 
primitive  way  to  keep  in  touch  with  this  work  and 
many  workers." 

Added  to  all  this  labour  remember  She  is  home- 
keeper,  housekeeper,  wife  and  mother  as  well  as  mis- 
sionary. 

Educational  Evangelist  The  term  explains  itself 
largely.  It  is  used  with  reference  to  our  unmarried 
women,  whose  work  is  as  varied  and  as  nameless  as  is 
that  of  their  married  sisters.  This  will  be  readily  dis- 
cerned further  on  when  we  study  the  several  fields. 

Physician's  Assistant.  She  is  the  wife  of  the  Mis- 
sionary Doctor.  She  is  not  his  assistant  in  the  capac- 
ity of  trained  nurse,  always ;  but  in  the  same  sense  that 
the  *'  Missionary's  Assistant "  is  a  helpmeet,  so  is  the 
"  Physician's  Assistant "  a  helpmeet  and  home-maker. 
In  some  instances  she  is  an  expert  in  other  lines  of 
work,  such  as  Kindergartner,  as  is  Mrs.  George  W. 
Leavell;  sometimes  She  is  a  teacher  of  music,  or 
teacher  in  the  day  school  or  an  evangelist. 

Bible  Women.  Chinese  Christian  women,  who  have 
learned  enough  of  the  story  of  Jesus  and  His  love  to 
tell  it  to  others. 

"  Because  of  custom  the  women  in  the  country  dis- 
tricts rarely  ever  go  to  the  chapels  to  hear  the  preach- 
ing of  the  Word,  and  as  a  result  they  have  not  had  the 
opportunity  to  hear  that  the  men  have.  Of  course 
those  who  are  Christians  go  to  the  chapels  occasionally 
and  a  few  others  with  them.  Because  of  this  fact  it  is 
necessary  to  take  the  Gospel  to  them  in  their  homes. 
For  this  purpose  "  Bible  Women  "  are  employed  to  go 


32  **  LAB0EEE9  TOGETHEE ' ' 

into  the  homes  with  Bibles  and  tracts  and  tell  the  story 
of  Christ  and  His  Love. 

Only  the  final  reckoning  can  tell  the  great  work 
these  women  are  doing  in  China.  One  missionary 
brother  says;  "The  Bible  Women  are  perhaps  the 
most  ideal  evangelists,  for  they  go  to  the  people  with 
the  message,  whereas  the  men  wait  in  the  chapels  for 
the  missionary  to  come  to  them.  These  faithful 
women  have  often  to  suffer  indignities,  insults  and 
persecutions  that  the  men  never  meet.  We  thank  God 
for  them  and  should  pray  constantly  for  them." 


QUESTIONS 

How  many  provinces  in  China  ? 

How  is  population  dispersed? 

In  how  many  provinces  do  Southern  Baptists  have  work? 

What  is  a  compound? 

What  is  the  difference  between  a  station  and  an  out  station? 

Give  some  of  the  duties  of  the  "Missionary's  Assistant." 

Tell  what  you  know  of  the  work  of  a  Bible  woman. 


IV 

THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION 

"  /  had  rather  walk  in  old  Wuchow  with  its  problems,  dirt  and 
misery,  and  be  of  service  there,  than  to  have  the  luxuries  that 
surround  you  here  in  this  country.  ,  There  is  joy  in  working 
where  you  realize  there  is  such  a  great  need** (Miss  Ida  Tayi^gr). 

THE  South  China  Mission  lies  in  the  south- 
eastern corner  of  China.  The  two  provinces 
of  Kwang  Si  ("  Broad  West  ")  and  Kwang 
Tung  ("Broad  East")  are  partly  occupied  by  the 
field.  As  has  been  before  stated,  the  two  together  are 
larger  than  Louisiana,  Mississippi  and  Alabama,  and 
have  nine  times  the  population  of  these  three  States. 

While  there  are  violent  discrepancies,  both  as  to 
climate  and  location,  as  well  as  population,  yet  for 
convenience's  sake,  let  us  imagine  that  Canton  lies 
somewhat  south  of  where  the  City  of  Montgomery, 
Alabama,  is.  Far  up  in  the  northwest  corner  of  Mis- 
sissippi, near  Clarksdale,  let  us  place  Kweilin,  remem- 
bering, however,  that  this  city  is  in  the  northeastern 
part  of  Kwang  Si.  Near  Jackson,  Mississippi,  we 
place  Wuchow.  West  of  Birmingham,  Alabama, 
Yinktak.  Eighty  miles  or  more  southwest  of  Canton, 
somewhere  near  New  Orleans,  we  place  Macao. 
Shiu  Hing  may  be  represented  by  Meridian  and  Kong 
Moon  by  Mobile.  These  seven  fields  with  their  out- 
stations  represent  the  South  China  Mission. 

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34 


"LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 


As  has  been  stated  elsewhere,  three  distinct  dialects 
are  spoken  on  this  field:  Cantonese,  Mandarin  and 
Hakka. 


3^,.^^^  ALA.  \ 


Map  of  South  China  Mission 

The  following  stations  use  the  Cantonese:  Canton, 
Wuchow,  Shiu  Hing,  Macao  and  Kong  Moon.  One 
must  not  get  the  impression,  however,  that  linguistic 
lines  are  closely  drawn.  In  the  Graves  Theological 
Seminary  in  Canton  it  is  necessary  to  have  a  teacher 
for  all  three  dialects.  This  is  also  true  of  several  of 
the  other  schools. 


Canton 

Canton  is  our  oldest  Southern  Baptist  Mission.  It 
is  one  of  the  largest  cities  in  the  world,  having  a  popu- 
lation of  over  two  and  one-half  millions. 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  36 

When  first  entered  by  missionaries  there  was  an 
immense  wall  round  the  city  of  Canton,  entered  by  one 
hundred  and  twenty  gates.  But  "  with  progress  in 
the  atmosphere,  Canton  city  has  accomplished  what 
we  might  call  the  eighth  wonder  of  the  world.  She 
has  destroyed  the  City  Wall  over  a  thousand  years  old, 
and  in  its  place  built  splendid  paved  streets  on  which 
we  are  soon  to  have  street  cars.  Not  only  did  the  wall 
have  to  go,  but  they  are  cutting  wide  streets  through 
different  parts  of  the  city.  This  form  of  progress  hit 
the  building  of  the  old  First  Baptist  Church  of  South 
China  and  took  off  about  thirty-three  feet  of  the  front. 
This  church  was  organized  in  1844  by  Rev.  J.  L. 
Shuck,  the  first  missionary  ever  appointed  by  the  For- 
eign Mission  Board.  (However,  at  the  time  of 
the  organization  of  this  church  he  was  under  the  Tri- 
ennial Convention.)  In  1862  the  whole  Baptist  work 
in  South  China  fell  upon  the  shoulders  of  Dr.  R.  H. 
Graves.  In  1869,  by  personal  supervision,  he  put  up 
the  present  building  of  the  Wai  Oi,  or  First  Church, 
and  on  April  5,  1869,  the  first  meeting-house  owned  by 
Baptists  in  South  China  was  formally  opened.  This 
landmark  of  Baptist  work  has  to  give  way  for  prog- 
ress. But  we  are  thankful  for  the  money  which  has 
come  to  put  up  a  new  church,  to  be  known  as  the 
Graves  Memorial,  to  commemorate  the  many  years  of 
faithful  service  Dr.  Graves  rendered  to  his  Lord  in 
South  China." 

One  must  not  get  the  impression  from  this  account 
of  the  modern  growth  of  Canton  that  it  is  an  enlight- 
ened city.     It  is  a  city  longing  for  culture,  for  literall)^ 


36  < '  L ABOEERS  TOGETHER  " 

tens  of  thousands  of  students  flock  there  every  year; 
but  the  blackness  of  heathen  darkness  broods  over 
their  lives.  The  question  is,  What  can  be  done  to 
evangelize  them? 

We  are  represented  in  Canton  by  the  following- 
named  Heroines  of  the  Cross: 

Mrs.  R.  H.  Graves,  "  The  Mother  Heart  of  us  all." 
Charge  of  Canton  Girls'  Boarding  School,  Pooi  To, 
oversight  of  a  number  of  girls'  day  schools,  oversight 
of  Bible  Women,  and  charge  of  the  Home  for  Blind 
Girls. 

Mrs.  G.  W.  Green,  charge  of  the  Pooi  In  Woman's 
School.  For  twelve  years  she  has  laboured  inces- 
santly to  "  foster  virtue  "  (for  such  is  the  meaning  of 
Pooi  In)  in  the  highest  sense  in  the  lives  of  benighted 
but  hungry-hearted  women.  To  this  school  belongs 
an  addition  for  young  children,  because  the  mothers 
cannot  come  without  them. 

Mrs.  R.  E.  Chambers,  Missionary's  Assistant,  in  the 
China  Baptist  Publication  Society,  which  is  in  charge 
of  her  husband,  Dr.  Chambers. 

Mrs.  John  Lake,  Missionary's  Assistant  in  the  Is- 
land of  Honan,  which  is  part  of  the  city  of  Canton. 
Also  Assistant  in  three  counties  in  the  great  Sz  Yap 
District.  Also  Assistant  in  three  counties  northeast 
of  Canton.  In  addition  is  giving  with  her  husband 
what  time  she  can  to  the  founding  of  a  leper  colony  on 
an  island  on  the  coast. 

Mrs.  P.  H.  Anderson,  Missionary's  Assistant, 
Teacher,  Evangelist. 

Miss  Mary  Anderson,  Assistant  to  Mrs.  Graves  in 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  37 

Pool  To  Girls*  Boarding  School.  (Pooi  To  means 
"to  foster  the  doctrines.")  Has  charge  of  the  pri- 
mary and  teacher  training  departments  in  said 
school. 

Mrs.  J.  T.  Williams,  Missionary's  Assistant,  Kin- 
dergartner  in  the  Pooi  To  School,  charge  of  music, 
and  training  in  practice  in  Primary  Sunday  School 
Methods. 

Mrs.  J.  R.  Saunders,  Missionary's  Assistant  among 
the  Hakkas. 

Miss  May  Hine,  Teacher  in  Pooi  To  Girls'  Acad- 
emy. 

Miss  Flora  Dodson,  Teacher  in  same  school. 

Mrs.  W.  D.  King,  Missionary's  Assistant,  Teacher 
of  English  in  Pooi  To. 

By  count  we  find  eleven  women,  several  of  whom 
are  wives  and  mothers,  labouring  in  a  field  where  there 
are  over  three  million  of  our  benighted  sisters.  As 
a  result  of  the  Seventy-five  Million  Campaign,  five 
more  hope  to  join  forces  with  them  before  the  close 
of  the  year.  This  little  handful  is  at  work  in  this 
vast  city  and  its  surrounding  outstations  where  we 
now  have  twelve  churches,  twenty-one  street  chapels, 
thirty-two  schools. 

From  out  the  various  phases  of  the  work  that  is 
carried  on  in  Canton  we  select  a  report  from  Miss 
Mary  Anderson  in  regard  to  school  work.  What  she 
says  of  the  work  here  is  equally  true  of  each  field: 

"  Some  of  you  have  heard  the  parable  told  of  the 
little  Chinese  boy,  Yip  Tsoon  Tung,  but  I  am  going  to 
tell  it  again,  because  it  is  so  true. 


38  "  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

"  He  said,  *  Once  a  man  had  a  great  many  sheep. 
He  loved  his  sheep  very  much,  and  on  one  cold  and 
rainy  night  he  went  out  himself  to  see  if  his  sheep  had 
been  brought  into  the  fold.  He  asked  the  under 
shepherd,  "  Are  you  sure  that  all  of  my  sheep  have 
been  brought  into  the  fold  ?  "  The  under  shepherd 
replied,  "  Yes,  master,  I  am  very  sure  that  all  of  your 
sheep  are  safe  in  the  fold."  But  the  anxious  shepherd 
said,  "Well,  w^hat  is  that  I  see  out  in  the  field?  It 
looks  like  sheep."  The  under  shepherd  tossed  his 
head  and  said,  "  Oh,  they  are  just  the  little  lambs ! 
They  don't  count!"'" 

It  is  certainly  true  that  the  "  Little  lambs  don't 
count "  in  China.  Even  we,  who  represent  Christ, 
have  strangely  neglected  the  children.  We  have  had 
primary  schools  in  China  for  a  great  many  years  but 
these  schools  have  been  filled  with  half  grown  chil- 
dren— there  have  been  very  few  little  children  even  in 
the  first  grade.  This  is  not  strange,  for  we  should 
not  expect  little  children  to  attend  schools  where  they 
have  to  sit  on  high  stools  and  sing  off  mechanical 
memory  drills  from  seven  o'clock  to  four-thirty. 

But  the  various  missions  in  China  have  at  last  be- 
gun to  realize  the  importance  of  providing  schools  for 
Jesus'  little  lambs,  and  several  modern  primary  schools 
have  been  established  In  various  parts  of  China. 
Wherever  schools  suitable  for  children  have  been 
established,  the  children  have  come  In  great  num- 
bers. 

Eight  years  ago  Pool  To  Academy,  In  Canton, 
enlarged  its  work  by  the  addition  of  a  modern  primary 


THE  SOUTH  CHIKA  MISSION  39 

school.  A  normal  class  for  training  primary  teachers 
was  also  added  and  this  work  has  been  wonderfully 
blessed,  although  it  has  been  handicapped  by  lack  of 
equipment.  Pooi  To  Academy  is  our  Central  Baptist 
Girls'  School  in  South  China.  This  session  the  school 
has  an  average  attendance  of  more  than  three  hun- 
dred and  fifty  students,  while  numbers  have  been 
turned  away  for  lack  of  room.  Thirty-five  splendid 
young  women  have  just  graduated  from  the  grammar 
school,  and  many  of  these  girls  will  return  in  Septem- 
ber for  high  school  and  normal  work.  We  believe 
that  these  consecrated  Christian  girls  will  do  a  great 
work  for  the  children  of  China. 

It  is  estimated  that  "  the  young  people  in  China  be- 
tween the  ages  of  six  and  twenty-one  require  some- 
thing like  a  million  teachers."  China  is  looking  to 
America  for  the  training  of  these  teachers.  The 
Chinese  Government  has  recently  sent  numbers  of  her 
educational  leaders  to  the  Philippines  to  study  Ameri- 
can methods  and  twenty-five  American  teachers  from 
the  Philippines  have  been  employed  to  supervise  gov- 
ernment schools  in  China.  The  Chinese  value  mission 
schools  highly  because  they  are  based  on  modern 
educational  principles  and  are  supervised  by  American 
teachers.  American  supervision  gives  mission  schools 
a  decided  advantage,  and  teachers  so  trained  are  in 
demand  all  over  China. 

Oh,  that  we  had  been  wise  enough  to  foresee  this 
situation  and  to  stress  our  educational  work  years 
ago!  Oh,  that  we  were  wise  enough  now  to  see  the 
importance  of  training  teachers  and  to  do  this  work  on 


40  "  LABOREBS  TOGETHER '' 

an  adequate  scale.  If  we  had  the  teaching  staff  and 
the  equipment  to  multiply  our  Christian  schools  the 
evangelization  of  China  would  be  assured. 

Wuchow 

Wuchow  lies  to  the  northwest  of  Canton  and  is  the 
second  in  size  of  the  mission  districts  that  speak  the 
Cantonese  dialect. 

The  evangelistic  work  of  the  field  is  distributed  over 
a  distance  of  more  than  three  hundred  miles,  including 
fifteen  churches  and  out  stations,  with  a  total  mem- 
bership of  nearly  two  thousand.  The  present  force  in 
the  field  consists  of  eight  people,  five  of  whom  are 
women. 

Miss  Julia  Meadows,  charge  of  Girls'  School; 
Evangelist. 

Mrs.  W.  H.  Tipton,  Missionary's  Assistant,  Teacher, 
Evangelist. 

Miss  E.  E.  Ray,  Girl's  and  Woman's  School. 

Mrs.  G.  W.  Leavell,  Physicians'  Assistant  and  Ex- 
pert Kindergartner. 

Miss  Reba  Cloud,  Wang  To  Girls'  School 

Miss  Lorena  Scarlet,  Evangelist  in  country  dis- 
tricts. 

While  all  phases  of  the  splendid  work  that  is  being 
done  should  claim  our  special  attention,  we  can  give 
space  to  only  one  or  two.  One  is  the  Wang  To  Girls' 
School.  It  IS  the  only  girl's  school  in  the  Cantonese 
half  of  the  Kwang  Si  Province,  the  entire  province 
having  a  population  of  some  eight  millions.  Hence, 
on  this  school  depends  the  training  of  the  girls  who 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  41 

arc  to  be  our  future  Bible  women,  teachers  and  home 
makers. 

Mrs.  W.  H.  Tipton  sends  us  the  message: 

This  school  was  opened  in  1906  by  Miss  Julia 
Meadows.  Previous  to  this  Miss  Kennon  had  con- 
ducted a  small  day  school  for  a  few  years.  Miss 
Meadows  opened  school  with  one  boarding  pupil 
and  a  number  of  day  pupils.  Each  year  there  has 
been  a  gradual  increase  in  the  number  of  boarding 
pupils. 

Bible  teaching  has  always  been  made  a  special  fea- 
ture of  the  school,  and  many  girls  going  out  from  this 
school  to  their  homes  in  the  interior  of  the  Province 
have  carried  the  Gospel  with  them. 

In  1911  Miss  E.  E.  Rea  took  the  school  while  Miss 
Meadows  was  home  on  a  furlough.  Miss  Meadows 
had  been  back  only  a  year  when  her  health  gave  way 
and  she  was  compelled  to  go  home  again.  Miss  Rea 
carried  on  the  school  until  1918  when  she  was  forced 
to  give  up  school  on  account  of  her  health.  Miss 
Rea's  strong  personality  and  earnest  Christian  teach- 
ing have  done  wonders  for  the  girls  who  came  under 
her  influence. 

This  school  has  changed  hands  with  almost  every 
term  since  1918.  Mrs.  Tipton  took  the  school  during 
the  spring  of  1918,  and  Miss  Shumate  was  borrowed 
from  the  Shiu  Hing  field  for  the  fall  term  of  that 
year.  Mrs.  Tipton  has  again  been  in  charge  since  the 
first  of  the  present  year. 

This  year  the  enrollment  has  reached  eighty,  about 
one-fourth  of  these  boarding  in  the  school.    At  pres- 


42  ''  LABOREES  TOGETHER  '^ 

ent,  all  the  boarding  pupils,  with  the  exception  of  one, 
are  Christians. 

During  these  fifteen  years  the  school  has  been  car- 
ried on  in  rented  buildings.  Its  present  home  is  an  old 
ancestral  temple,  which  leaves  much  to  be  desired  as 
to  location  and  sanitation.  The  Board  has  been  good 
enough  to  send  out  money  for  a  new  building,  but  so 
far  it  has  been  impossible  to  buy  land  on  which  to 
build.  However  we  are  trusting  in  the  Lord  to  open 
up  a  way  for  a  suitable  location  very  soon. 

The  Stout  Memorial  Hospital  is  located  in  Wu- 
chow.  Mrs.  R.  E.  Beddoe  has  written  the  following 
splendid  messages  regarding  the  institution,  giving  a 
glimpse  of  the  wonderful  work  that  is  done  in  the 
name  of  Him  who  said,  "  I  was  sick  and  ye  visited 
Me": 

"  We  have  every  cause  to  believe  that  this  work 
has  the  Father's  smile  of  approval,  as  evinced  by  its 
gradual  growth,  its  past  history  and  its  many  friends 
in  China  and  in  the  Home  Land.  We  well  know  that 
even  though  the  equipment  may  be  ever  so  good,  it  is 
only  a  means  to  an  end.  Much  precious  time  is  being 
used  for  *  putting  our  precious  house  in  order,'  but  at 
the  same  time  we  look  forward  to  a  rich  harvest  of 
souls  for  the  praise  and  glory  of  His  name.  Not  in- 
frequently do  we  take  a  backward  glimpse  of  those 
whose  faithful  service  made  possible  the  present  work, 
and  especially  Is  this  true  when  we  mix  and  mingle 
with  the  people  and  they  remind  us  of  Dr.  Meadows, 
Dr.  Hayes,  Mrs.  Hayes  and  Dr.  Leavell.  Along  with 
these  many  mention  the  name  of  Miss  Meadows  and 


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Dr.  R.  E.  Beddoe  and  Family 
(The  Baby  Boy,  Robert  Stanley,  has  been  called  to  his  Heavenly  Home) 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  43 

her  work  of  love.  '  And  herein  is  that  saying  true,  One 
soweth  and  another  reapeth.  Other  men  laboured,  and 
ye  are  entered  into  their  labours.' 

''On  the  first  floor  of  this  building,  and  directly  con- 
nected with  the  large  waiting-room,  there  is  a  room 
which  is  set  apart  as  headquarters  for  our  hospital 
preacher.  Here  will  be  kept  names  and  addresses  of 
patients  who  become  interested  in  the  Gospel,  so  they 
may  be  visited  by  the  Bible  women  in  their  homes,  or 
if  they  come  from  a  distant  station,  an  effort  is  made 
by  correspondence  to  put  the  local  preacher — if  such 
there  be — in  touch  with  such  parties.  We  trust  that 
ere  long  there  may  be  room  on  the  second  floor  that 
may  serve  a  similar  purpose  for  the  Bible  woman  and 
that  in  these  rooms  many  souls  may  be  won  to  the 
Saviour  and  many  tracts  and  Bibles  may  go  forth 
shedding  light  and  life  on  their  way.  Mr.  Wai  Ting 
Ping,  of  Canton,  arrives  here  to-day  to  take  over  the 
work  of  hospital  preacher  following  Mr.  Wong  Koon 
Hoi,  who  leaves  us  to  take  up  work  in  another  field. 
As  yet  we  have  no  Bible  woman  as  successor  to  Mrs. 
Wong,  though  we  hope  to  secure  one  soon.  In  the 
meantime  the  Christian  women  and  some  schoolgirls 
will  assist  as  other  duties  will  allow. 

"  During  our  recent  revival  meetings  there  was  a 
gentleman  at  the  hospital  from  the  same  village  as 
our  pastor  Yu.  After  hearing  the  Gospel  he  became 
greatly  Interested,  and  being  unable  to  walk  on  ac- 
count of  an  Injured  foot,  secured  a  chair  and  attended 
services.  Later  he  was  heard  Inquiring  of  the  hospital 
employees,  *  Have  you  any  more  books  I  can  read  ? 


44  "  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

I  want  to  learn  all  I  can  of  the  Gospel'  Thus  is  seen 
the  need  of  a  literature  fund,  and  the  hospital  will 
well  be  able  to  carry  this  additional  expense  when  it 
is  on  its  feet  again,  so  to  speak,  after  the  expense  of 
moving  and  of  the  new  equipment. 

"  The  plan  for  giving  the  people  the  Gospel  is  no 
doubt  the  same  used  in  most  other  Mission  hospitals. 
When  there  is  a  sufficient  number  of  people  in  the 
Clinic  building,  but  always  before  time  for  examina- 
tions to  begin,  the  preacher  speaks  to  them.  While  he 
is  speaking  we  watch  carefully  to  see  who  seems  most 
interested  in  the  message.  After  the  sermon  we  deal 
personally  with  the  people,  beginning  with  the  eager 
listeners.  An  even  better  opportunity  is  with  those 
who  go  up  to  the  main  building  for  special  treatments 
or  who  remain  as  patients.  Last  week  we  met  a  six- 
teen-year-old girl  in  the  women's  ward,  whose  heart 
seemed  all  prepared  for  the  sweet  story.  We  believe 
she  understood  and  accepted  salvation. 

"  I  have  marvelled  at  the  great  number  of  children 
who  enter  the  hospital  with  portions  of  the  body,  and 
sometimes  the  body,  swollen  from  various  forms  of 
dropsy.  Not  long  ago  we  had  two  such  patients — 
one  a  little  girl  with  face  and  head  swollen  and  limbs 
and  body  emaciated;  and  a  boy  the  same  age  whose 
whole  body  was  swollen.  His  little  fingers  could 
scarcely  grasp  the  coin  that  was  given  him  and  his 
eyes  were  almost  closed.  The  two  sat  side  by  side 
on  the  bed  as  Sam  K'oo,  our  Primary  teacher  who 
had  come  for  the  purpose,  talked  to  them  of  things 
eternal.    The  picture  was  beautiful  and  pathetic;  for 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  45 

she  gave  them  an  object  lesson  in  prayer  just  by  pray- 
ing with  them  and  for  them,  and  thus  tried  to  point 
them  to  Him  Who  is  the  friend  of  children. 

"  While  speaking  of  children  I  am  reminded  of  the 
many  times  we  meet  women  who  say,  '  We  are  just 
taking  the  baby  to  Dr.  Go,  for  we  knew  she  could  give 
relief.'  If  the  hospital  had  nothing  else  to  offer  but 
the  services  of  this  consecrated  lady  doctor,  with  her 
touch  of  healing  for  countless  numbers  of  women 
and  children,  the  great  outlay  of  money  and  lives 
would  be  worth  while.  These  two  lady  doctors  dur- 
ing their  leisure  hours  are  glad  to  go  visiting  with  us 
in  the  homes,  and  witness  effectually  the  saving  power 
of  Christ." 

Shiu  Hing 

The  city  of  Shiu  Hing,  which  we  have  placed 
somewhere  near  Meridian,  Mississippi,  on  our  im- 
aginary map,  lies  near  the  center  of  a  field  which  com- 
prises parts  of  three  counties  and  contains  about 
seven  hundred  square  miles.  The  population  is  ap- 
proximately a  half  a  million;  Hoh  Tau,  the  farthest 
of  our  stations,  is  only  about  seventy-five  miles  from 
Shiu  Hing,  imagine  it  down  about  Laurel,  Miss.,  a 
few  hours  by  modern  methods  of  travel,  but  four  or 
five  days  by  native  boats. 

Our  roster  for  this  field  is  as  follows: 

Miss  H.  F.  North,  Charge  of  the  Kwang  To 
Woman's  and  Girl's  Boarding  School.  Remains  most 
of  the  time  in  the  city  of  Shiu  Hing.    Evangelist. 

Miss      Margie      Shumate,      Evangelistic      work. 


46  "  LABOEEES  TOGETHER  " 

'*  Cramped  in  small  boats,  climbing  steep  mountains, 
and  risking  pirates  she  spends  much  time  in  native 
villages  sleeping  on  hard  bed  boards  and  faring  on 
the  best  these  kind  villagers  can  offer."  She  sent  the 
following  sketch  of  her  station  which  is  given  here. 
She  has  clearly  defined  for  us  the  field  she  and  her  co- 
labourer.  Miss  North,  can  truly  claim  as  theirs  alone. 
But  she  does  not  tell  how,  with  her  Bible  woman,  she 
herself  visits  during  the  year  more  than  one  hundred 
and  fifty  villages  and  towns  and  tells  the  Gospel  story 
to  between  two  and  three  thousand  people.  And  she 
might  add  how  gloriously  the  Dear  Lord  is  blessing 
her  labours. 

"  The  Shiu  Hing  station  is  one  of  the  oldest  in 
South  China.  It  was  opened  by  Dr.  Graves  many 
years  ago,  and  the  church  was  organized  by  him  in 
1877.  Dr.  Graves  resided  at  Shiu  Hing  only  tempo- 
rarily, but  frequently  visited  the  work  from  Canton 
for  many  years.  No  missionary  permanently  located 
at  Shiu  Hing  until  1895  when  Miss  H.  F.  North 
moved  from  Canton  to  Shiu  Hing  and  has  remained 
there  ever  since.  Two  or  three  times  she  was  joined 
by  other  workers,  but  they  stayed  only  a  short  time, 
and  she  was  alone  in  the  station  most  of  the  time 
from  the  time  she  came  until  early  in  the  year  1915 
when  she  was  joined  by  Miss  Margie  Shumate. 

"  The  little  church  which  was  organized  by  Dr. 
Graves  has  grown  until  at  present  there  is  a  member- 
ship of  over  SIX  hundred  in  the  Shiu  Hing  field. 
There  are  now  three  churches  and  nine  out  stations 
in  the  field  which  comprises  parts  of  three  counties, 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  47 

the  farthest  part  of  the  field  being  four  or  five  days' 
journey  from  Shiu  Hing  city.  With  the  exception  of 
the  Shiu  Hing  church  which  is  independent,  the  ten 
preachers  who  labour  in  the  field  are  under  the  native 
Home  Board.  There  are  nine  Bible  women  who  are 
under  Miss  Shumate's  charge,  she  having  the  direction 
of  the  evangelistic  work  in  the  field.  Miss  Shumate 
visits  the  churches  and  out  stations,  keeps  in  touch 
with  the  Christian  women  and  develops  the  work  in 
every  possible  way. 

"  There  is  a  boys'  school  of  about  thirty  pupils  in 
Shiu  Hing  city,  managed  entirely  by  the  Chinese. 
The  Girls'  Boarding  School  is  in  charge  of  Miss 
North.  Including  the  Kindergarten  department,  there 
is  an  enrollment  from  eighty  to  a  hundred,  over  half 
of  whom  are  boarders.  There  is  also  a  department 
for  the  training  of  Bible  women.  The  school  has 
made  marked  progress  within  the  last  three  or  four 
years  and  the  prospects  for  its  future  growth  and  de- 
velopment are  bright." 

Kong  Moon 

Kong  Moon  and  its  companion  city,  San  Ooi,  are 
the  centers  for  one  of  the  most  thickly  populated 
regions  of  China.  The  Kong  Moon  field  has  an  area 
of  about  three  thousand  square  miles  and  a  population 
of  more  than  four  millions.  For  these  multitudes 
Southern  Baptists  have  four  foreign  missionaries  to 
witness  for  our  God.    Three  of  them  are  women: 

Mrs.  John  Sundstrom,  Missionary's  Assistant, 
Teacher,  Evangelist. 


48  "  LABOEERS  TOGETHER »' 

Miss  Lora  Clement,  Teacher,  Evangelist. 

Miss  Sarah  Funderburke,  Teacher,  Evangelist. 

Miss  Clement  and  Miss  Funderburke  are  at  present 
alone  on  the  great  field,  since  overwork  and  strenuous 
years  have  broken  the  health  of  dear  Mrs.  Sundstrom. 
She  v^ith  her  husband  may  perhaps  remain  on  a  fur- 
lough for  more  than  a  year.  But  Miss  Funderburke 
sends  for  us  a  message  of  cheer  in  these  v^^ords: 

"  Never  have  there  been  greater  opportunities.  How 
we  long  for  more  ambassadors  for  Christ  that  to  all 
the  people  His  love  may  be  made  known.  This  year 
(1920)  we  have  nine  day  schools,  all  in  flourishing 
condition.  And  one  by  one  these  students  are  being 
brought  to  a  knowledge  of  Christ." 

While  this  has  been  a  peculiar  year  in  many  ways, 
in  the  effect  that  changing  conditions  have  brought  in 
our  work  in  Kong  Moon  we  feel  that  much  has  been 
accomplished.  Disturbance  caused  by  the  revolution, 
and  the  aftermath  of  large  bands  of  robbers  in  country 
districts,  have  greatly  interfered  with  the  work  among 
the  women. 

The  conferences  for  prayer  and  Bible  study  that 
have  been  held  have  been  a  source  of  benefit  and  bless- 
ing in  drawing  the  women  together  in  cooperation, 
s)mipathy  and  helpfulness,  for  the  planning  of  the  fu- 
ture work  in  winning  souls  for  the  Master.  This  work 
is  in  the  care  of  Mrs.  Sundstrom  who  also  has  four 
girls'  schools  with  a  total  enrollment  of  one  hundred 
and  sixty-six  students  besides  the  direction  of  the 
work  of  the  Bible  women.  Miss  Clement  is  studying 
the  language  preparatory  to  her  work  in  this  field. 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  49 

The  following  incident  in  the  life  of  one  of  the  school- 
girls proves  the  power  of  the  Gospel  unto  salvation  in 
the  young  life  of  a  Chinese  girl. 

A  young  girl  of  eleven  has  been  a  student  in  the 
Kong  Moon  school  for  the  past  three  years.  Last 
year  she  became  much  interested  in  the  teachings  of 
the  Bible  which  she  was  taught  each  day.  Finally 
she  accepted  Christ  as  her  Saviour  and  followed  Him 
in  Baptism.  This  was  in  January  of  this  year.  Dur- 
ing the  vacation  in  the  summer  months  her  parents 
took  a  violent  dislike  to  the  school,  its  teachings  and 
all  Christians  of  their  acquaintance.  They  com- 
manded their  daughter  to  renounce  her  belief  and  to 
worship  the  idols  and  ancestral  tablets  in  the  home. 
This  she  refused  to  do.  S'he  begged  to  return  to 
school,  but  this  only  rekindled  the  wrath  of  her  par- 
ents. In  order  to  break  her  stubborn  will  and  force 
her  to  give  up  her  love  for  the  Master,  she  was 
whipped,  and  when  found  praying,  she  was  kicked  and 
in  one  instance  her  mother  was  so  enraged  that  she 
bit  her.  Seeing  that  this  girl  was  firm  in  her  belief  the 
parents  refused  to  allow  any  one  from  the  school  or 
the  Bible  woman  to  visit  her.  They  made  her  wear 
the  clothes  of  a  slave  and  forced  her  to  eat  with  the 
slave  girl  and  do  heavy  work. 

This  did  not  accomplish  their  purpose  so  they 
moved  as  far  away  from  the  school  and  its  influence 
as  they  thought  necessary  to  prevent  the  girl  remain- 
ing true  to  its  teachings.  She  knew  the  teachers,  the 
missionaries  and  the  Christian  girls  In  the  school  were 
praying  for  her,  and  she  was  faithful  to  her  trust  in 


50  ' '  L ABOEEES  TOGETHEE ' ' 

God.  Nothing  moved  this  faith  from  her.  On  prayer- 
meeting  day  in  the  chapel  she  slipped  away  from  home 
and  quietly  took  her  place  with  the  schoolgirls.  She 
looked  tired  and  much  thinner  than  when  last  seen 
at  the  chapel,  but  no  one  realized  at  the  time  what  she 
had  been  suffering.  Her  face  was  serene  and  un- 
moved. 

Her  parents  had  burned  her  school  books,  but  she 
had  her  Testament ;  how  it  escaped  is  not  known.  She 
assured  her  friends  that  she  read  it  every  day  and 
continued  in  prayer.  She  went  away  without  know- 
ing whether  she  was  being  watched  or  followed  by 
her  parents. 

The  testing  is  over  now  and  the  wrath  of  the  par- 
ents seems  spent;  she  says  her  life  is  easier.  Little 
Uet  Ngo  can  now  pray  in  peace  and  read  her  Testa- 
ment without  fear.  We  praise  God  for  His  keeping 
of  this  child  during  such  a  severe  testing. 

Could  we  have  stood  the  test  so  quietly  ? 

Macao 

Macao  is  a  Portuguese  port  about  eighty  miles 
southwest  of  Canton.  But  one  name  appears  on  the 
roster,  that  is  Mrs.  J.  L.  Galloway,  who  with  her  hus- 
band finds  more  than  enough  to  keep  her  full  time 
occupied.  Fine  reports  of  her  Woman's  Missionary 
Society  come  across  to  us,  as  well  as  of  organized 
work  among  the  young  women,  and  the  Sunbeams 
and  the  B.  Y.  P.  U.  Dr.  Love  tells  us  of  the  field 
and  the  work : 

"  We  reached  Macao  on  Thursday  morning,  and 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  51 

were  welcomed  by  Brother  Galloway  and  Mrs.  Gallo- 
way. Macao  is  where  Dr.  Robert  Morrison,  the  first 
evangelical  missionary  to  China,  lived  and  died,  and 
where  we  found  his  tomb  with  appropriate  inscription 
upon  it.  Here  too,  are  the  ruins  of  Sao  Paulo  built 
in  1603.  The  cross,  which  is  still  standing  on  a  part 
of  the  ruins,  is  said  to  have  been  the  inspiration  of  the 
Christian  song,  '  In  the  Cross  of  Christ  I  Glory,'  by 
Sir  John  Bowring.  Just  under  the  shadow  of  this 
cross  Brother  Galloway  has  secured  a  splendid  lot  for 
our  Baptist  church  and  the  school.  Near  by  is 
Camoen's  garden,  where  is  a  bust  of  Camoen,  the 
Portuguese  poet.  It  is  said  that  in  the  beautiful  spot 
he  wrote  his  great  poems  while  in  exile.  Macao  was 
discovered  in  1511  by  Vasco  da  Gama,  the  noted  navi- 
gator, whose  statue  commands  a  central  place  in  the 
beautiful  city  park. 

"  One  of  the  most  delightful  services  we  have  had 
anywhere  was  in  the  Baptist  church  at  Macao.  The 
singing  by  Mrs.  Galloway's  boys  and  girls  was  sur- 
passingly good.  Among  the  members  of  this  church 
are  Mrs.  Sun  Yat  Sen,  the  wife  of  Dr.  Sun  Yat  Sen, 
the  first  President  of  the  Chinese  Republic,  and  Mrs. 
Lew  Yuk  Lin,  the  wife  of  Dr.  Lew  Yuk  Lin,  who  was 
formerly  the  Chinese  Ambassador  to  the  Court  of  St. 
James,  and  at  one  time  was  in  the  diplomatic  service 
in  Washington.  We  have  found  no  finer  types  of 
Christian  women  than  these  two  ladies  of  the  upper 
class  who  give  themselves  unsparingly  and  with  beau- 
tiful Christian  humility  to  work  among  the  lowest 
and  poorest  classes  in  their  city;  Dr.  Lew  showed  us 


62  "  LABOEERS  TOGETHER '' 

many  courtesies  and  left  us  with  a  most  grateful 
memory  of  our  visit  to  Macao.  Through  the  thought- 
fulness  of  Mrs.  Galloway  we  had  the  pleasure  of  a 
luncheon  with  these  friends  and  with  Mr.  Sun  Foh, 
the  son  of  Dr.  Sun  Yat  Sen,  and  his  young  wife,  who 
are  charming  and  intelligent  people.  The  junior  Mrs. 
Sun  was  reared  in  Honolulu  and  educated  in  America. 
Ten  members  of  the  family  of  Dr.  Lew  are  members 
of  the  Baptist  church  in  Macao.  His  cultivated 
daughter  was  recently  baptized,  and  at  her  own  re- 
quest was  baptized  with  a  slave  girl  in  the  home.  An 
example  of  Christian  Stewardship  is  found  in  Ah 
Chan,  Brother  Galloway's  cook,  who  besides  giving  her 
tenth,  has  recently  given  twenty  dollars  toward  the 
new  church  and  ten  dollars  to  Christian  charities.  Her 
deep  and  real  experience  of  Christ  shines  in  her  face 
as  she  serves  the  guests  in  the  home." 

Let  us  keep  in  mind  the  fact  that  in  this  chapter  we 
are  dealing  with  the  stations  in  the  South  China  Mis- 
sion that  use  the  Cantonese  dialect. 


QUESTIONS 

1.  Where  is  the  South  China  Mission?    How  many  states  or 

provinces  does  it  occupy? 

2.  Name  these  provinces  and  tell  how  many  jBelds  there  are. 

3.  Tell  something  of  the  city  of  Canton. 

4.  How  many  languages  are  spoken  in  the  South  China  Mis- 

sion? 

5.  Name  our  sisters  who  labour  in  the  Canton  field. 

6.  How  many  of  these  went  out  from  your  State? 

7.  Give  a  short  sketch  of  the  work  In  Wuchow. 

8.  Tell  something  of  the  Stout  Memorial  Hospital. 
9*    Give  a  sketch  of  the  Shiu  Hing  field. 

ID.    What  dialect  is  spoken  in  these  fields  ?i 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION 

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Ying  Tak 

"  China  has  no  sorrow  that  Chrisfs  message  cannot  heal" 

FAR  to  the  northwest  of  Canton  we  have  placed 
in  our  imaginary  map  the  City  of  Ying  Tak, 
somewhere  about  Birmingham,  Alabama. 
Here  we  find: 

Mrs.  Ben  Rowland,  Pastor's  Assistant.  Charge  of 
work  for  women  in  Ying  Tak  City.  Evangelistic 
Work. 

Miss  A.  M.  Sandlin,  Charge  of  Schools,  Evangel- 
istic Work. 

Miss  Grace  T.  Elliot,  Teaching.  Evangelistic 
Work. 

Ying  Tak  and  the  surrounding  country  is  occupied 
largely  by  the  Hakkas.  In  the  Chinese  language 
Hakka  means  "  the  stranger."  They  are  called 
strangers  because  they  are  different  from  all  other 
Chinese.  The  women  have  never  bound  their  feet 
and  they  dress  differently  from  any  other  Chinese 
women.  The  houses  are  very  large  and  many  of 
them  two  or  three  stories  high.  The  people  live 
largely  in  country  houses,  not  in  congested  cities,  as 

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54  ♦^  LABOEEES  TOGETHBE ^» 

do  most  Chinese.  The  men  are  brave  and  hardy,  great 
leaders  in  war  and  all  aggressive  movements.  They 
are  intellectual,  making  fine  Christian  leaders  when 
once  won  to  the  Master.  They  are  by  nature,  and  can 
be  easily  made  by  training,  fitted  for  intellectual  and 
spiritual  leadership.  Throughout  South  China  many 
of  the  great  Christian  leaders  of  all  denominations  are 
Hakkas. 

Owing  to  the  fact  that  most  Hakkas  live  in  the  inte- 
rior where  little  has  been  done  by  any  denomination  to 
give  the  Gospel  to  them,  we  find  among  these  people 
great  sections  densely  populated  without  any  mes- 
senger to  tell  them  of  the  world's  Redeemer.  The 
Baptists  of  America  have  an  unusual  opportunity  and 
responsibility  in  the  Hakkas  and  it  behooves  us  to 
press  forward  in  this  work  as  speedily  as  possible.  In 
our  enlarged  plan  of  missionary  propaganda  we  ought 
to  have  a  large  plan  for  the  Hakkas.  They  are 
among  the  most  intellectual  and  progressive  people  we 
have  in  China,  and  a  people  we  have  done  but  little  to 
win  to  our  Saviour,  hence  the  time  is  exceedingly  op- 
portune for  us  to  do  large  things  for  this  people. 
They  need  us  and  we  need  them — won  to  our  Saviour 
and  trained  for  His  Service — and  in  the  coming  days 
we  shall  find  them  among  the  great  spiritual  and  in- 
tellectual leaders  in  China. 

The  local  Bible  women  report  regular  and  earnest 
work  in  Ying  Tak  and  vicinity.  Great  interest  in  per- 
sonal work  has  been  aroused  and  often  bands  of 
women  and  girls  go  into  the  city  and  out  Into  the  sur- 
rounding villages  to  preach  to  the  women  in  their 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  65 

homes  and  invite  them  to  the  gospel  services  at  the 
church. 

The  Ramseur  Memorial  Hospital  is  at  Ying  Tak. 
There  is  no  American  doctor  here  at  all.  *'  A  great 
field  is  open  in  Ying  Tak  and  the  Hakka  field  for  a 
consecrated  doctor  to  work  with  this  hospital  and  do 
itinerating  work  throughout  the  cities  and  villages  of 
that  vast  field." 

Kweilin 

The  last  field  we  name  in  this  South  China  Mission 
is  our  newest  field,  Kweilin.  It  is  the  center  of  our 
work  for  the  Mandarin  speaking  people. 

Our  Baptist  work  in  the  Mandarin  speaking  section 
of  Kwang  Si  Province  was  really  started  by  col- 
porteurs going  through  the  country  selling  Gospels, 
Christian  tracts,  New  Testaments,  and  telling  the 
simple  Gospel  story.  Those  reached  by  the  colporteurs 
went  down  to  Wuchow  (our  main  station  in  the  Can- 
tonese speaking  section  of  Kwang  Si)  for  baptism. 
Some  Mandarin  men  were  led  to  give  their  lives  to 
God's  service  and  went  to  our  Graves  Theological 
Seminary  in  Canton  to  prepare  to  become  preachers. 

Out  stations  in  the  Mandarin  section  were  opened 
and  these  men  were  sent  there  to  uphold  the  banner 
of  Christ.  The  work  was  in  charge  of  the  missionary 
at  Wuchow. 

For  years  our  South  China  Missionaries  prayed 
that  workers  would  be  sent  from  home  for  the  Man- 
darin Work.  It  was  very  far  from  Wuchow  and  the 
missionaries  at  Wuchow  talked  Cantonese.     In  1913 


56  ''  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

Rev.  and  Mrs.  C.  J.  Lowe  offered  to  go  to  Wuchow 
to  the  Mandarin  field.  In  May  of  that  year  Mr.  Lowe 
with  some  colporteurs  made  a  trip  to  Kwei  Lin,  the 
largest  city  of  Kwang  Si  Province  and  the  place  our 
mission  had  voted  to  open  as  a  main  station. 

There  were  three  Baptists  then  living  in  Kwei  Lin. 
A  small  building  was  rented  in  which  a  Book  Room 
was  opened  as  a  "  Forerunner  of  our  Evangelistic 
Work/'  In  November,  1912,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lowe  and 
their  two  children,  Reba  and  Jackson,  moved  to  Kwei 
Lin,  having  rented  a  Chinese  house  for  their  home. 
By  that  time  Mr.  Lin,  who  had  been  left  in  charge  of 
the  Book  Room,  had  forty-five  inquirers  in  training 
for  baptism. 

At  first  all  meetings  were  held  in  the  home  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Lowe.  In  the  meantime  prayer  was  being 
made  that  God  would  give  a  building  for  a  chapel. 
Soon  a  suitable  place  was  found,  in  the  very  heart  of 
the  great  city,  and  our  first  chapel  was  opened.  Our 
First  Baptist  Church  was  organized  in  March,  1913, 
with  twelve  members. 

When  our  main  station  was  opened  at  Kwei  Lin  in 
1912,  there  were  six  country  or  out  stations.  Since 
then  nine  more  have  been  opened,  as  well  as  a  branch 
chapel  in  Kwei  Lin,  and  soon  two  more  will  be  opened. 
The  Kwei  Lin  church  has  now  a  membership  of  686 
and  there  are  altogether  1,196  Christians  in  the  whole 
Mandarin  section  of  Kwang  Si  Province. 

Our  sisters  who  labour  there  to-day  are : 

Mrs.  J.  C.  Lowe,  Missionary's  Assistant,  Evangel- 
ist, Teacher. 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  57 

Mrs.  E.  L.  Mewshaw,  Physician's  Assistant, 
Teacher. 

Miss  Hattie  Stallings,  Teacher,  EvangeHst. 

Mrs.  Lowe,  who,  hke  all  other  missionaries,  is 
charmed  with  her  especial  field,  makes  it  very  clear  for 
us  what  Kwei  Lin  is  and  has  been: 

"  In  the  northeast  corner  of  Kwang  Si  Province  on 
one  of  the  largest  tributaries  on  the  West  River,  lies 
our  beautiful  city  of  Kwei  Lin,  *  Forest  of  Cassia.' 
In  prehistoric  times,  indeed,  this  whole  section  is  said 
to  have  been  covered  by  a  Cinnamon  forest. 

"  Though  our  city  may  be  said  to  be  hoary  with  age 
we  are  not  living  in  the  past,  but  in  a  remarkable  way 
are  keeping  abreast  of  the  times.  Here  too,  in  remote 
Kwang  Si  can  be  seen  New  China.  Here  may  be 
found  splendid  government  educational  institutions, 
including  primary,  middle  and  normal  schools  with  an 
entire  enrollment  of  some  two  thousand  students. 
There  is  a  model  prison  in  Kwei  Lin  said  to  be  a 
copy  of  the  American  Willoughby  Prison  in  the 
Philippines.  Here  the  prisoners  are  taught  all  manner 
of  occupations,  such  as  carpentry,  weaving,  dyeing, 
sock-making,  printing,  working  in  rattan,  etc.,  etc. 
Moreover  the  inmates  of  the  prison  are  taught  cleanli- 
ness. During  a  recent  visit  to  the  institution  we  really 
marvelled  at  the  clean  airy  cells.  As  we  passed  along 
a  corridor,  the  one  or  two  prisoners  in  each  cell  arose 
and  stood  at  respectful  attention  as  we  went  by.  The 
people  of  Kwei  Lin  on  the  whole  are  polite,  progress- 
ive and  patriotic. 

"Until    comparatively    recently    the    Province    of 


58  ''  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

Kwang  Si  was  closed  to  European  influence.  About 
fifty  years  ago  Dr.  Graves,  one  of  our  pioneer  Bap- 
tist Missionaries  to  South  China,  attempted  a  trip  to 
Kwei  Lin.  The  people  of  the  city  in  one  sense  re- 
ceived him  warmly!  They  burned  his  boat  and  sent 
him  back  down  the  river  on  another.  Dr.  Graves  and 
our  other  early  missionaries  always  seemed  to  have 
this  section  specially  on  their  hearts  and  prayed  often 
that  God's  Messengers  might  be  sent  to  this  corner 
of  the  great  field  of  China.  This  city  was  really  closed 
to  Christian  influence  until  1898,  when  the  first  foreign 
missionary  came  to  live  here.  Now  the  '  clarion  call ' 
of  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  can  be  heard  in  nearly 
all  corners  of  the  city. 

"Kwei  Lin  occupies  a  wonderfully  strategic  position 
for  missionary  work.  Why,  '  all  roads  lead  to  Kwei 
Lin ! '  To  the  northeast  lies  Hunan  Province,  to  the 
west,  the  great  untouched  Province  of  Kwei  Cheo. 
The  city  itself  has  a  population  estimated  at  three  hun- 
dred thousand,  and  along  the  roads  leading  out  from 
Kwei  Lin  to  the  north,  east,  south  and  west,  lie  large- 
sized  towns,  markets  and  villages,  practically  all  as  yet 
untouched  by  the  Gospel.  A  prospective  railway  will 
extend  from  Cha'ng  to  Pao  K'in  and  from  Pao  K'in 
to  Kwei  Lin,  thence  to  Liu  Cheo,  and  on  down  to  the 
coast.  It  is  predicted  that  Kwei  Lin  will  be  the  great- 
est commercial  center  between  Hankov/  and  Canton. 
What  marvellous  opportunities  for  the  spread  of  the 
Gospel  abound  here!  What  a  challenge  to  us  Bap- 
tists! Oh,  Baptist  sisters  and  brothers,  we  serve  a 
mighty  God.     Let  us  *  expect  great  things  from  Him 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  59 

and  attempt  great  things  for  Him ! '  He  is  calling  us 
to  *  go  in  and  possess  the  land/  Will  you  not  pray 
that  in  this  section  of  China  a  great  Baptist  constit- 
uency may  be  established  that  shall  be  strong  in  the 
power  of  His  might,  and  true  to  the  principles  and 
doctrines  we  hold  dear,  bring  glory  to  His  name. 

"  The  Kwei  Lin  Hospital  is  under  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Mewshaw,  she  having  work  among  the  women  pa- 
tients. She  has  no  Bible  woman  to  assist  her,  but  has 
the  earnest  enthusiastic  help  of  the  girls  from  the  Girls' 
School.  '  No  one  comes  in  contact  with  the  Hospital 
or  the  doctors  without  hearing  of  the  Great  Physician. 
A  tract  is  wrapped  up  in  each  package  of  medicine 
that  goes  out,  and  in  this  way  many  people  who  would 
not  carry  a  tract  away  in  their  hands  find  it  when  they 
reach  home  and  get  interested  in  its  contents.'  " 

In  this  lesson  we  have  learned  something  of  the 
fields  in  South  China  where  the  Hakka  dialect  and  the 
Mandarin  dialect  are  spoken. 

All  of  the  work  in  our  South  China  Mission  that  is 
under  our  Foreign  Mission  Board  has  now  been 
brought  before  us. 

But  our  Partner  Over  There  standing  face  to  face 
with  conditions  that  we  know  little  or  nothing  about 
feels  impelled  at  times  to  add  additional  tasks  to 
those  which  already  fill  her  life  to  the  full.  Some  of 
these  deserve  our  prayerful  attention. 

One  of  them  is  the  Blhid  Girls'  Home  in  Canton 
and  we  herewith  give  a  sketch  of  the  same: 

"  In  the  year  1904,  when  Mrs.  Janie  Lowrey  San- 
ford  Graves  was  home  on  furlough,  she  told  us  some- 


60  "  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

thing  of  the  awful  condition  of  the  many  blind  girls 
in  China,  how,  in  their  helplessness,  they  are  sold  into 
lives  of  shame  and  forced  into  the  most  abject  slavery 
and  sin.  She  also  told  of  the  rescue  of  a  number  of 
these  helpless  little  ones,  by  Miss  Lula  F.  Whilden, 
whose  heart  had  been  stirred  with  compassion  over 
their  wrongs  and  their  seemingly  hopeless  helpless- 
ness; but  she  stated  that  Miss  Whilden  had  no  place 
to  care  for  them,  and  that  she  had  a  hard  time  finding 
safe  and  comfortable  homes  that  would  take  them  in 
and  give  them  proper  care.  Our  hearts  too  were  very 
much  touched  by  the  recital  of  these  dreadful  condi- 
tions and  under  the  leadership  of  Miss  Robbie  Sumrall 
of  the  Blue  Mountain  College  Girls  of  Blue  Mountain, 
Mississippi,  undertook  to  build  a  home  for  them, 
where  they  might  be  saved  from  this  kind  of  life  and 
taught  to  love  and  trust  Jesus. 

"  After  this  work  was  undertaken,  we  learned  that 
our  faithful  and  much  burdened  Secretary  of  the  For- 
eign Mission  Board,  Dr.  Willingham  (now  of  Sainted 
memory)  did  not  exactly  approve  of  our  undertaking, 
because  our  Board  was  already  heavily  in  debt,  and 
the  bringing  into  existence  of  another  object  to  be 
supported  seemed  unwise  at  that  time.  But  Dr.  E.  Z. 
Simmons  (of  Canton,  China,  at  that  time,  but  now  in 
Heaven)  who  was  at  home  on  furlough  was  over- 
joyed that  God  had  put  into  the  hearts  of  some  of  His 
children  to  do  this  thing,  that  he  reasoned  with  Dr. 
Willingham  about  it  and  urged  that  the  good  work  be- 
gin, be  encouraged  to  go  on  to  completion,  and  trust 
the  Lord  for  the  funds  for  its  support.    Dr.  Willing- 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  61 

ham's  heart  was  as  anxious  for  this  kind  of  work  to 
be  done  as  was  that  of  Dr.  Simmons  or  any  of  us ;  but 
from  a  business  point  of  view,  he  felt  that  it  was  un- 
wise. However,  he  consented,  and  to  make  a  long 
story  short,  the  home  was  built  within  five  years,  but 
there  was  no  source  of  income  for  its  support  (just  as 
Dr.  Willingham  foresaw)  ;  those  who  were  responsible 
for  the  starting  of  the  work  felt  the  responsibility  for 
its  support.  So  the  Janie  Sanford  Y.  W.  A.  with  the 
help  of  faculty,  former  students  and  friends,  of  Blue 
Mountain  College,  has  had  as  its  special  work  these 
years  the  support  of  this  Home. 

"  Very  soon  after  the  Home  was  built,  there  were 
twelve  or  thirteen  little  ones,  including  those  rescued 
by  Miss  Whilden,  enjoying  the  blessings  of  protection 
and  Christian  training  in  the  Home. 

"  When  Miss  Whilden  came  back  to  America  the 
last  time,  knowing  from  the  condition  of  her  health 
that  she  could  not  live  long  and  would  never  return  to 
China,  she  turned  over  to  Mrs.  Graves  the  funds  that 
had  been  given  her  by  personal  friends  for  '  her 
girls '  with  instructions  to  use  as  Mrs.  Graves  saw 
fit,  just  as  *  her  girls  '  were  cared  for.  So  in  the  year 
1917,  out  of  these  funds  left  by  Miss  Whilden,  an  ad- 
dition of  six  small  rooms  was  built  besides  an  addi- 
tion to  the  dining-room.  Five  of  these  rooms  are  for 
the  use  of  the  five  of  Miss  Whilden's  girls  still  living 
in  the  Home. 

"  It  was  difficult  to  manage  the  younger  girls  with 
these  older  girls,  now  mature  women,  mixed  in  among 
them,  so  this  additional  room  filled  a  felt  need  and  is 


62  "  LABOEERS  TOGETHER »' 

quite  an  advantage,  in  that  it  enables  them  to  take  in  a 
half  dozen  more  girls.  We  understand  the  Home  now 
accommodates  about  thirty. 

''  At  one  time  Mrs.  Graves  reported  that  of  the 
seventeen  then  in  the  Home  all  were  Christians  except 
four  little  ones  who  had  been  in  the  Home  only  a  short 
time.  And  of  the  twenty- four  who,  up  to  that  time, 
had  been  inmates  of  the  Home,  four  had  gone  out  as 
teachers,  three  of  them  teaching  other  blind  children 
and  one  teaching  seeing  children  in  Miss  North's 
school  in  Shiu  Hing.  Two  had  died  and  one  was 
married  and  had  a  little  boy  who  leads  her  to  church 
and  elsewhere." 

In  Miss  Florence  Anderson's  letter  written  from 
Canton  under  date  of  January  5th,  1919,  she  says, 
"  The  Christmas  Tree  at  the  Blind  Girls'  Home  was 
a  nice  treat  for  them.  Their  program  was  nice  and 
was  prepared  by  themselves.  The  Scripture  portions 
that  the  children  recited  in  concert  were  thoroughly 
memorized — there  was  not  a  hesitation.  Their  songs 
were  beautiful  as  their  singing  always  is. 

''  You  remember  the  baby  who  was  picked  up  in 
the  streets  of  Kong  Moon  and  brought  to  us  by  native 
Christians?  Well,  she  sang  a  song — a  long  one. 
Auntie  (Mrs.  Graves)  stood  her  on  a  chair,  she  was  so 
small. 

"  Two  of  the  girls  went  to  Macao  at  Mrs.  Gallo- 
way's request.  She  wanted  them  to  take  part  in  their 
Christmas  entertainment  in  order  to  arouse  an  interest 
in  the  support  of  the  Home  among  their  church  mem- 
bers.    It  simply  amazes  the  Chinese  to  find  that  the 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  63 

blind  can  learn  to  read,  write,  knit,  sew,  etc.;  they 
have  always  considered  the  blind  as  absolutely  help- 
less and  useless." 

It  takes  about  forty  dollars  a  year  to  support  a  child 
at  present  prices  and  there  is  need  of  a  larger  number 
of  helpers  in  the  work.  This  work  is  a  private  under- 
taking and  is  not  included  in  the  Seventy-five  Million 
Campaign  objects.  Funds  for  this  work  are  being 
sent  to  Mrs.  Graves  regularly  through  Mrs.  T.  C. 
Lowrey,  Blue  Mountain,  Mississippi. 

"  Inasmuch  as  ye  have  done  it  unto  the  least  one  of 
these  my  little  ones  ye  have  done  it  unto  Me." 

Pakhoi  Mission 

As  has  been  stated,  this  little  book  is  not  a  history, 
but  a  record  of  To-day.  However,  there  is  one  field 
where  to-day  we  have  no  missionary  from  the  Home 
Land,  but  it  is  a  field  to  which  two  faithful  hearts  turn 
yearningly,  tearfully  and  prayerfully.  This  is  our 
"  baby  mission  "  in  China — the  Pakhoi  field. 

Pakhoi  is  a  treaty  port  in  the  Kwang  Tung  Province. 
It  is  two  hundred  and  eighty-nine  miles  southwest  of 
Canton,  and  four  hundred  and  twenty  miles  west  of 
Hong  Kong. 

The  mission  was  opened  in  August,  1914,  by  Rev. 
and  Mrs.  E.  T.  Snuggs,  who  were  at  that  time  busily 
engaged  in  evangelistic  and  educational  work  in  the 
Canton  Mission.  But  at  the  suggestion  of  the  Board 
they  left  this  field  and  went  to  one  where  the  black- 
ness of  darkness  is  indescribable. 

For  the  past  six  years,  with  the  exception  of  several 


64  "  LABORERS  TOGETHER  ^' 

months  spent  in  the  Home  Land,  they  have  laboured 
under  circumstances  that  would  have  discouraged  the 
most  stalwart  of  heart.  Brother  Snuggs  says  the  field 
is  dark,  difficult  and  discouraging.  Idolatry  is  still 
prevalent,  even  the  devil  is  openly  worshipped  and 
feared.  "  The  people  that  live  next  door  to  the  Pakhoi 
chapel  testify  that  they  saw  the  foreign  missionary 
take  out  the  eyes  from  the  dead  body  of  the  preacher's 
wife,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  he  was  not  in  Pakhoi  at 
the  time."  "  The  degrading  influence  of  woman  is 
very  strong.  The  sensuality  of  the  masses  is  appal- 
ling." 

"  A  mission  with  only  one  missionary  family  is  un- 
satisfactory and  precarious  at  all  times." 

These  quotations  from  the  reports,  during  these 
years,  to  the  Board  tell  a  sad  story  of  hard  work, 
lonely  lives  and  aching  hearts.  Added  to  other  dis- 
couraging features,  Mrs.  Snuggs  was  compelled  to 
come  home  for  medical  treatment  three  years  ago, 
and  her  husband  was  forced  to  undergo  an  operation 
in  the  Home  Land  this  year.  On  both  occasions  the 
field  was  left  without  a  missionary. 

We  must  not  get  the  impression  that  amid  all  these 
dark  hours  the  Sun  of  Righteousness  is  not  shining 
for  them  and  through  them  in  such  a  way  that  the 
"  morning  light  is  breaking "  even  in  Pakhoi.  A 
church  has  been  established,  made  up  of  a  small  but 
staunch  membership.  A  boys'  school  and  a  girls' 
school  have  also  been  organized.  Brother  Snuggs 
closes  his  last  report  in  words  that  should  burn  into 
our  hearts  and  lives  the  truth  concerning  their  needs 


THE  SOUTH  CHINA  MISSION  66 

until  we  will  arouse  ourselves  and  go  to  the  relief  of 
this  faithful  couple: 

"  When  a  just  portion  of  the  Seventy-five  Million 
Campaign  fund  has  been  expended  on  what  is  neces- 
sary in  a  modern  Christian  mission,  such  as  a  com- 
pound, church,  schools,  residences,  hospital,  all  of 
which  are  still  lacking,  also  eight  additional  mission- 
aries, then  this  Mission  will  be  on  its  feet.  It  will 
walk,  it  will  run  to  and  fro,  carrying  the  Glad  Tidings ; 
it  will  do  something  worth  while,  something  that  will 
count  toward  winning  the  multitude  of  this  too  long 
neglected  and  large  portion  of  South  China.  This 
Mission  should  be  touching  the  lives  of  from  four  to 
five  millions  of  people,  whereas  at  present  it  is  touch- 
ing not  more  than  forty  or  fifty  thousand.  '  The  har- 
vest is  truly  plenteous,  but  the  labourers  are  few.'  " 


QUESTIONS 

Name  our  missionaries  in  the  Ying  Tak  field. 

Where  is  Ying  Tak? 

Describe  the  Hakkas. 

Where  is  Kweilin?     What  dialect  is   spoken  there? 

When  was  the  first  Baptist  Church  organized  in  Kweilin? 

Who  are  our  labourers  there? 

What  is  the  population  of  Kweilin? 

Tell  something  of  the  Kweilin  Hospital. 

Give  a  sketch  of  the  Blind  Girls'  Home. 

Have  you  ever  helped  with  this  Home? 

Tell  something  of  our  "baby"  mission  in  China. 


VI 

THE  CENTRAL  CHINA  MISSION 

"One  hundred  million  people  in  China — as  many  people  as 
there  are  in  the  United  States — are  beyond  the  range  of  all 
missionary  effort." 

A  THOUSAND  miles  or  less  in  a  northeast- 
erly direction  from  Canton  lies  the  City  of 
Shanghai.    It  is  in  the  Province  of  Kiangsu. 

This  Province  is  a  bit  smaller  than  the  State  of 
Georgia,  but  contains  nine  times  the  population. 

In  our  imagination  we  will  place  Kiangsu  over 
Georgia.  (See  map.)  Somewhere  in  the  neighbour- 
hood of  the  following  cities  in  Georgia  we  will  find  the 
correspondingly  named  cities  in  Kiangsu:  Near  Bruns- 
wick see  Shanghai.  Albany,  Soochow;  Macon, 
Chinkiang;  Atlanta,  Yangchow. 

Allow  the  comparison  to  be  carried  a  step  further: 
The  State  of  Georgia  has  2,563  churches;  the  province 
of  Kiangsu  has  twenty-eight.  Georgia  has  332,749 
white  Baptists;  Kiangsu  has  2,159. 

This  Central  China  Mission  was  founded  just  two 
years  after  the  South  China  Mission,  that  is  in  1847. 
The  pioneer  missionaries  were  Rev.  Matthew  T. 
Yates  and  wife,  from  North  Carolina.  They  gave 
forty-one  years  to  the  work,  sixteen  of  them  being 
spent  alone  on  the  great  field.     It  Is  worth  while  to 

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supported  his  family  and  his  Work,  but  with  the  aid 
of  friends  in  Shanghai,  built  a  new  church. 

Shanghai 

"  Shanghai,  the  New  York  of  China  "  is  a  great 
and  growing  city  located  near  the  seacoast.  It  is 
the  oldest  and  largest  mission.  Here,  as  in  Canton, 
the  work  is  done  on  three  dialects,  Cantonese,  Man- 
darin and  Shanghai  speaking  people.  We  have  four 
churches  in  this  city:  North  Gate,  Cantonese,  Man- 
darin and  Grace. 

Our  roster  for  Shanghai  embraces  stars  of  the  first 
magnitude : 

Mrs.  R.  T.  Bryan,  Missionary's  Assistant  in  Can- 


68  ' '  L ABOBEES  TOGETHEE  " 

tonese  Church;  W.  M.  U.  President  of  City  Union; 
General  Evangelist  and  Sunday  School  Worker,  with 
Mandarin  and  Cantonese;  charge  of  Cantonese 
School. 

Miss  Willie  Kelly  ("  Our  Lady  Comfort "),  Evan- 
gelist in  North  Gate  Church,  where  for  over  twenty- 
five  years  she  has  laboured.  Has  charge  of  five  out- 
posts where  there  are  three  churches  and  four  day 
schools. 

Miss  Sallie  Priest  ("Sunshine  Sallie"),  Principal 
Smith  Bible  School,  General  Evangelist. 

Mrs.  Frank  Rawlinson,  Missionary's  Assistant, 
Grace  Church.  Dispensary  Assistant  for  benefit  of 
poor  children. 

Miss  Louise  Tucker,  Teacher  Smith  Bible  School, 
Old  North  Gate. 

Miss  H.  F.  Sallee,  Principal  Eliza  Yates  Memorial 
School,  Evangelist. 

Miss  Pearl  Johnson,  Teacher  Smith  Bible  School, 
Evangelist. 

Mrs.  J.  M.  Rogers,  Principars  Assistant  in  the 
Ming  Yang  Boys'  School. 

Miss  Mary  N.  Lynn,  Mrs.  Bryan's  Assistant  in 
school  and  church  work. 

Mrs.  W.  E.  Crocker,  Evangelist,  Teacher. 

The  mere  calling  over  their  names  and  attempting 
to  set  a  definite  work  for  them  appears  so  little,  seems 
so  futile  to  bring  us  in  intimate  touch  with  them. 

Would  we  could  have  looked  into  that  Home  of 
Happiness  near  old  North  Gate  where  Miss  Kelly, 
Miss  Priest,  Miss  Tucker  and  Miss  Johnson  have 


THE  CENTEAL  CHINA  MISSION  69 

done  such  marvellous  work  in  the  Smith  Bible  School 
and  other  schools  under  their  management ;  where  they 
have  accomplished  such  well-nigh  impossible  tasks  in 
homes,  churches,  chapels,  streets — anywhere,  every- 
where people  live  and  move.  But  we  joy  too  over  the 
fact  that  the  old  house  is  gone — torn  away  to  make 
room  for  the  commodious  church  plant  being  erected 
— and  that  a  beautiful  residence  has  been  built  from 
funds  given  Miss  Kelly  by  Mrs.  Seaman. 

Would  we  could  go  some  miles  further  in  the  same 
big  city  and  near  Grace  Church  find  the  love  light  of 
genuine  homes  shining  out  of  the  abiding  place  of  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Bryan,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Rawlinson,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Rogers,  Misses  Sallee,  Bryan  and  Lynn.  And 
ah!  what  the  love  light  of  home  means  in  a  heathen 
land. 

Shanghai  ought  to  be  the  capital  of  China.  Its 
situation  in  China  is  similar  to  that  of  Washington 
in  the  United  States.  While  politically  it  ought  to  be 
the  capital,  commercially  it  is  China's  New  York,  as 
we  have  before  stated.  It  is  here  that  China  comes 
most  in  contact  with  the  outside  world.  Most  of  the 
influences  that  are  to-day  shaping  the  new  China  origi- 
nate In  Shanghai.     As  Shanghai  goes,  so  goes  China. 

Shanghai  Baptist  College.  Eleven  miles  north  of 
the  city  lies  what  Miss  Lanneau  terms,  "  The  crown- 
ing glory  of  our  Central  China  Work — The  Shanghai 
Baptist  College."  This  institution  Is  supposed  to  be 
supported  equally  by  Northern  and  Southern  Baptists, 
each  furnishing  faculty  as  well  as  funds.  Southern 
Baptists  may  have  met  their  quota  in  funds  but  they 


70  "  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

are  far  behind  in  doing  their  work  so  far  as  the 
faculty  is  concerned.  We  have  only  four  members  in 
the  faculty,  whereas  our  Northern  brethren  have 
eleven;  but  we  are  thankful  to  say  that  others  are  on 
the  way  to  take  part  in  the  work.  (See  Chapter 
IX.) 

This  is  the  leading  Baptist  College  and  Seminary  in 
China.  Young  men  from  all  over  the  country  com- 
plete their  course  here ;  and  many  of  them  then  come 
to  America  fully  prepared  to  take  University  training. 

Our  interest  in  the  college  centers  round  two  mem- 
bers of  the  faculty,  Miss  Elizabeth  Kethley,  Assistant 
Teacher  in  English.  However,  she  gives  time  to 
music,  athletics,  personal  work  and  is  intensely  inter- 
ested in  the  Settlement  Work  that  the  faculty  has 
opened  in  the  factory  district  which  lies  three  miles 
from  the  college.  And  Miss  Kathryn  Bryan  who  this 
session  has  charge  of  the  young  women  who  are  enter- 
ing the  college  for  the  first  time. 

While  these  two  are  the  only  members  of  the 
faculty  doing  direct  school  work  this  record  would 
be  far  from  complete  if  it  left  out  the  wives  of  Pro- 
fessor J.  B.  Webster  and  Professor  C.  H.  Westbrook. 
Both  were  Missionary's  Assistants  in  a  wide  and  sym- 
pathetic sense.  An  attack  of  cholera  during  Septem- 
ber, 1920,  carried  Mrs.  Westbrook  to  her  eternal 
Home  where  we  know  she  is  singing  joyously ;  for  she 
was  very  musical. 

Soochow 
About  two  hours'  run  by  train  from  Shanghai  in  a 


THE  CENTEAL  CHINA  MISSION  71 

westerly  direction  lies  Soochow.  Here  we  have  five 
missionary  societies,  all  of  them  running  schools,  four 
of  them  extending  the  grades  through  the  High 
School  and  one  doing  College  work.  We  have  also 
two  churches,  a  splendid  kindergarten  and  numerous 
out  stations. 

Here  we  find  registered  Mrs.  T.  C.  Britton,  Mrs. 
C.  G.  McDaniel,  Mrs.  W.  P.  Hamlet  and  Mrs.  H.  H. 
McMillan,  all  Missionary's  Assistants  and  Evangel- 
ists. We  have  also  Miss  Sophie  Lanneau  and  Miss 
Olive  Bagby,  both  teachers  in  charge  of  Girls' 
Schools  and  doing  evangelistic  work. 

Soochow  had  its  beginning  in  the  time  of  Nehemiah 
and  although  near  Shanghai  it  is  still  a  typical  Chinese 
city.  It  has  a  population  of  about  seven  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand.  The  City  Wall  is  thirteen  miles  in  cir- 
cumference and  is  in  splendid  condition.  The  city  has 
always  enjoyed  an  enviable  reputation  for  its  culture 
and  learning  and  it  is  therefore  no  wonder  that  the 
missionaries  working  there  have  laid  large  emphasis 
on  school  work  as  a  means  of  reaching  the  people. 
There  are  about  four  hundred  students  in  all  in  the 
mission  schools,  and  they  all  come  under  direct  Chris- 
tian influence  and  training.  These  students,  together 
with  the  church  members,  put  the  missionary  in  direct 
and  constant  touch  with  something  like  five  hundred 
homes.  Nearly  all  of  these  families  are  living  in  the 
same  houses  with  other  families,  and  all  these  homes 
are  in  close  touch  with  neighbouring  homes,  and  our 
special  territory  covers  something  like  one-fourth  of 
the  entire  city,  say  two  hundred  thousand  people,  a 


72  ' '  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE '» 

population  larger  than  that  of  the  city  of  Richmond, 
Virginia.  With  the  necessary  help  and  equipment 
what  may  we  not  accomplish  in  Soochow  within  the 
next  decade  ? 

Chingkiang 

Four  hours  by  rail  to  the  northwest  of  Soochow  we 
find  the  city  of  Chingkiang  with  its  two  churches,  one 
school  and  a  number  of  day  schools. 

Our  Partners  there  are  Mrs.  C.  C.  Harriot  and 
Mrs.  A.  Y.  Napier,  each  doing  all  that  is  possible  for 
them  to  do  in  their  immense  field. 

The  average  Southern  State  contains  about  two 
million  people.  Rev.  A.  Y.  Napier  of  this  Ching- 
kiang Station  has  recently  completed  a  survey  of  his 
field  and  finds  that  it  contains  about  two  million  souls. 
"  To  make  the  matter  concrete,"  Brother  Napier  sug- 
gests, "  imagine  the  people  of  my  field  gathered  into 
congregations  of  one  hundred  each.  There  would  be 
twenty  thousand  groups.  Among  these  all  Evangel- 
ical denominations  have  seven  Chinese  pastors, 
twenty-eight  evangelists  and  seven  Bible  women  with 
a  total  of  only  one  thousand  three  hundred  church 
members.  There  remain  over  one  million  nine  hun- 
dred and  ninety  thousand  who  are  still  without 
Christ." 

Yangchow 

Almost  north  of  Chingkiang  lies  Yangchow,  which 
must  be  reached  by  canal.  The  trip  requires  nearly 
three  hours  because  the  boats  move  slowly.  Here  we 
find: 


THE  CENTEAL  CHINA  MISSION  73 

Mrs.  L.  W.  Pierce,  Missionary's  Assistant,  Teacher 
in  day  schools. 

Mrs.  R.  V.  Taylor,  Physicians'  Assistant,  Teacher. 

Misses  Alice  Parker,  M.  E.  Moorman,  Hazel  An- 
drews, Mary  C.  Demarest,  Teachers  in  the  Girls' 
Academy  and  other  schools.  Evangelists. 

Miss  Elizabeth  E.  Teal,  Nurse  in  Hospital. 

This  field  extends  north  and  south  about  thirty-five 
miles,  east  and  west  about  one  hundred  and  forty 
miles.  There  are  all  told  in  the  field  ten  churches,  the 
Yangchow  Girls'  Academy,  a  number  of  day  schools 
and  the  Yangchow  Hospital. 

The  temptation  is  almost  irresistible  to  pause  at 
length  just  here  and  pay  some  feeble  and  humble 
tribute  to  that  sainted  character  who  gave  so  many 
long  years  of  her  life  to  the  Yangchow  Girls' 
Academy.  It  is  said  that  throughout  the  entire 
district  there  are  women  who  are  old  and  who 
are  growing  old  who  owe  Miss  Julia  Mackenzie 
the  sweet  and  sacred  privilege  of  knowing  the 
Saviour. 

It  is  a  matter  of  gracious  joy  to  know  that  the 
Yangchow  Girls'  Academy  from  henceforth  will  be 
known  as  the  Julia  Mackenzie  Memorial  Academy. 
A  worthy  monument  to  a  noble  soul.  Let  us  thank 
Him  afresh  for  her  life  and  its  wonderful  influence 
and  pass  on. 

The  Yangchow  Hospital  is  perhaps  the  best 
equipped  and  most  complete  plant  of  all  the  hospitals 
Southern  Baptists  have  on  foreign  fields. 

Lack  of  space  forbids  the  giving  of  more  informa- 


74  ''  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  '^ 

tion  on  this  great  and  growing  field  of  Central  China. 
The  chapter  is  brought  to  a  close  with  a  special  mes- 
sage regarding  all  the  work  from  Miss  Willie  Kelly. 
It  is  to  her  that  are  due  special  thanks  for  the  ex- 
cellent map  of  the  field.  May  we  not  urge  that  this 
map  be  studied  carefully  with  the  chapter  so  that  we 
may  become  as  familiar  with  this  part  of  our  Great 
Business  Concern  over  there  as  we  are  with  the  work 
in  our  own  State  ? 

"  Kiangsu,  the  District  in  which  our  Central  China 
Mission  is  operating,  was  established  by  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Yates  in  1847.  Of  course  this  fact  is  known  to  every 
one  in  our  Southland!  (Oh!  the  irony  of  that  last 
sentence! — Bditor.)  They  arrived  in  Shanghai  Sep- 
tember 12.  On  November  6,  1847,  a  Baptist  Church 
was  organized  with  six  members.  Two  of  these  mem- 
bers were  Chinese  preachers  brought  here  from  Can- 
ton. These  had  to  learn  the  language,  as  Cantonese 
at  that  time  was  not  at  all  understood  by  the  natives 
of  Shanghai.  The  other  members  were  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Yates  and  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Shuck.  In  1859  the  member- 
ship was  only  twenty-two. 

"  In  1879  the  second  church  was  established  in  this 
Province  at  Quin  San,  fifty  miles  northwest  of  Shang- 
hai. In  1883  Ching  Kiang  was  the  next  station 
opened.  This  is  a  port  of  the  Yangtsze  River.  This 
same  year  Soochow  was  entered,  a  chapel  built  and  a 
church  organized.  1891  marks  the  opening  of  a  large 
city  on  the  grand  canal, — Yangchow. 

"  Missionaries  are  living  at  each  of  these  places 
with  the  exception  of  Quin  San.    No  foreign  mission- 


THE  CENTEAL  CHINA  MISSION  76 

ary  has  ever  lived  there.  Hence  the  home  papers  do 
not  mention  that  station."  ' 

"  Recently  we  have  a  separate  station  out  from 
Shanghai,  which  is  a  joint  work  under  our  two 
Boards.  This  goes  by  the  name  of  Shanghai  Baptist 
College,  and  has  the  appearance  of  a  small  town  itself. 
It  is  the  first  thing  one  sees  on  entering  the  city  of 
Shanghai  from  Woo  Sung. 

"  Each  of  these  main  stations  represents  much  coun- 
try work,  as  you  will  see  by  the  map.  Our  largest 
work  and  perhaps  most  progressive  is  in  Shanghai. 
Most  of  the  work  here,  with  over  a  thousand  pupils 
in  our  schools,  is  self-supporting  as  to  our  running 
expenses.  We  have  much  valuable  property  here, 
which  was  mostly  given  by  Mrs.  Seaman,  only 
daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Yates.  Of  course  this  does 
not  include  the  buildings  at  the  College. 

"  Mrs.  Seaman  is  a  wealthy  widow  and  has  given  to 
the  Shanghai  Mission  more  than  her  father's  entire 
salary  during  the  forty-one  years  of  his  service. 

"  We  are  now  building  two  large  churches,  one  at 
the  North  Gate,  and  one  for  the  Cantonese  Church, 
both  of  which  were  made  possible  by  Mrs.  Seaman's 
gifts.  Her  property  is  all  in  Shanghai.  We  need 
more  buildings  and  more  missionaries.     If  we  were 

^Noie  by  Editor— This  sketch  would  be  far  from  complete  if 
there  was  not  made  special  mention  of  the  work  of  Miss  Kelly 
at  this  out  station  of  Quin  San.  In  a  way  it  is  the  child  of  her 
most  earnest  efforts.  Here  for  twenty-five  years  she  has  builded 
of  human  souls  a  monument  to  her  Master,  much  of  the  time 
working  single  handed  and  alone.  Surely  the  word  "Quin  San" 
is  written  on  the  heart  of  Willie  Kelly. 


76  *'LABOEEES  TOGETHEE" 

better  equipped  we  could  do  great  things  here.  Every 
door  is  standing  open,  invitingly  open,  waiting  for  us 
to  enter  and  possess  for  Jesus  our  Master. 

"  We  are  trying  closely  to  follow  the  work  of  the 
W.  M.  U.  at  home,  and  our  women  are  making  prog- 
ress along  these  Hnes.  We  have  a  Year  Book  and 
printed  programs.  We  send  annual  greetings  to  the 
W.  M.  U.  of  the  South.  Pray  for  us  that  we  may 
grow  in  grace  and  wisdom." 

Where  We  Have  No  Work.  Sometimes  the  ques- 
tion arises,  "What of  China's  great  untouched  cities?" 

Lying  next  to  Kiangsu  is  the  immense  Province  of 
Chekiang,  where  Southern  Baptists  have  no  labourers. 
Our  Northern  brethren  and  sisters  do  some  work 
there.  Because  of  the  wonder  of  the  great  city  of 
Hangchow,  we  give  from  one  of  our  own  Partners  a 
sketch  of  a  field  untouched  by  us: 

"  Hangchow  is  the  Capital  of  the  Province — Che- 
kiang— an  old  city  famous  for  its  fine  temples  and 
beautiful  scenery.  West  Lake  is  known  far  and  wide 
for  its  beauty.  Some  of  us  recently  visited  this  city. 
We  left  Shanghai  on  the  2:  55  train  expecting  to  reach 
Hangchow  about  seven,  but  trains  in  China  are  just  as 
uncertain  as  trains  in  some  other  places  I  know.  The 
engine  broke  down  just  outside  of  Hangchow  and  we 
stayed  there  until  nearly  ten  o'clock.  We  were  the 
only  foreigners  in  second  class  and  we  were  the  only 
ones  curious  enough  about  the  delay  to  get  up  and  try 
to  find  out  what  the  trouble  was.  The  Chinese  merely 
made  themselves  comfortable  or  smoked  another  dozen 
cigarettes — the   British- American   Tobacco   Company 


THE  CENTEAL  CHINA  MISSION  77 

has  done  a  thorough  job  in  China !  Men,  women  and 
children  smoke. — ^Another  engine  came  to  our  rescue 
finally  and  we  passed  through  the  city  wall  and  came 
into  the  station,  where  a  nice  old  Chinese  man  met  us, 
took  charge  of  our  baggage  and  bargained  for  rickshas 
for  us  for  the  ten-minute  ride  to  the  school  compound. 
The  streets  of  Hangchow  are  wide  and  clean.  We 
passed  first  some  foreign  buildings  then  turned  into 
narrower  streets,  the  cheerful  ricksha  men  yelling  at 
every  corner  to  warn  any  approaching  from  the  other 
way.     Our  friends  were  up  and  waiting  for  us. 

"The  next  day  was  a  holiday,  so  our  hostess  was 
free  to  go  with  us.  We  climbed  the  city  hill  and  looked 
into  the  temples  there  and  enjoyed  the  wonderful  view 
of  the  city,  the  bay  on  one  side.  West  Lake  on  the 
other,  with  mountains  on  the  background,  and  an  oc- 
casional pagoda  to  give  a  touch  of  the  real  Orient. 
This  is  the  beginning  of  summer,  so  a  special  time  of 
worship ;  there  were  many  pilgrims  coming  and  going 
and  we  were  besieged  with  beggars,  who  were  sta- 
tioned at  regular  intervals  along  the  road  to  the  tem- 
ple. The  pilgrims  get  special  merit  for  giving  to  the 
poor,  so  they  were  provided  with  *  cash,'  a  piece  of 
copper  with  a  hole  in  it  worth  a  tenth  of  a  cent,  car- 
ried in  a  yellow  pilgrims'  bag  hung  from  the  shoulder. 
The  appearance  of  foreigners  on  the  scene  was  the 
signal  for  a  general  uproar,  each  one  crying  aloud  to 
the  'honourable  foreigner,  O  young  foreigner,  O 
handsome  foreigner,  in  the  name  of  Buddha  give  us 
alms.'  It  was  changed  to  *  foreign  devil '  after  we 
passed.     We  do  not  give  to  professional  beggars — and 


78        <*LABOEEBS  TOGETHEE'^ 

that  includes  about  all  of  them — for  it  would  be  en- 
couraging a  trade  we  disapprove  of.  Some  of  them 
were  all  in  rags  and  tatters  and  sores,  some  were  old 
and  blind  and  a  good  many  were  strong  and  healthy 
looking. 

"  The  temples  were  all  about  alike  inside,  two  horrid- 
looking  creatures  standing  guard  on  either  side  of  the 
entrance,  in  the  main  room  a  large  Buddha,  or  several, 
according  to  the  wealth  of  the  temple.  In  this  one  was 
the  Buddhist  hell,  small  images  being  put  through  all 
kinds  of  torture,  having  eyes  burned  out,  tongues  cut 
out,  being  sawed  into,  being  burned  or  put  in  hot  pitch, 
etc.  It  doesn't  look  nearly  as  bad  as  it  sounds.  After 
dinner  we  went  down  to  the  lake  and  bargained  for  a 
boat  to  take  us  across.  When  we  got  in  we  found 
that  it  was  rowed  by  a  woman  and  a  little  girl  not 
more  than  eleven  years  old.  Of  course  we  objected  to 
that  child  rowing  us,  but  they  wanted  the  fare,  so  we 
went  on,  and  the  girl  worked  as  well  as  any  one  and 
didn't  seem  to  mind  at  all.  There  were  three  extra 
oars  and  we  helped  all  the  way.  The  lake  isn't  deep 
and  the  water  is  clear.  There  are  small  built-up  is- 
lands with  quaint  temples  and  tea-houses  on  them.  A 
handsome  Chinese  home  is  spread  out  along  one  side 
and  two  picturesque  old  pagodas  can  be  seen  in  the 
distance. 

"  The  temple  we  visited  is  about  two  miles  up  in  the 
hills.  Here  again  we  saw  pilgrims  and  beggars.  This 
temple  is  one  of  the  finest  I  have  seen,  grand  old  trees, 
beautiful  bridges  and  mountain  scenery.  And  every- 
where in  the  rocks  were  carved  Buddhas.^ 


THE  CENTEAL  CHINA  MISSION  79 

"  In  the  main  temple  the  pillars  are  Oregon  pines, 
brought  over  after  the  1911  revolution, — I  have  for- 
gotten whether  they  were  sixty  or  ninety  feet  high, 
but  the  ceiling  is  high  enough  to  make  one  dizzy  to 
look  up.  Two  old  ladies  with  tiny  feet,  after  bowing 
to  the  idols  and  burning  their  incense,  tried  to  reach 
around  one  of  the  pillars.  They  will  have  wonderful 
tales  to  tell  in  their  village  when  they  return,  of  the 
posts  that  were  too  large  for  two  of  them  to  reach 
around. 

"  We  went  home  by  starlight  and  had  music  the  rest 
of  the  evening.  The  next  morning  was  spent  in  little 
shops  in  the  city.  On  Pearl  Street  can  be  found  thou- 
sands of  dollars'  worth  of  pearls ;  the  ladies  wear  them 
as  the  chief  ornament.  There  are  many  fine  silver 
shops  also,  but  the  most  interesting  places  were  the 
curio  shops,  where  one  is  likely  to  find  most  anything, 
and  perhaps  nothing  one  wants. 

"  The  fan  shop  was  interesting ;  there  were  prize 
awards  from  almost  every  exposition  that  has  been 
held  of  late  years  in  America  and  Europe.  The  fans 
are  made  right  there  and  they  range  in  price  from 
thirteen  cents  for  ordinary  ones  to  several  dollars  for 
the  sandal  wood,  ivory  and  carved  handles. 

"The  medicine  shop  was  another  place  of  interest, — 
it  IS  a  large  plant  in  fine  Chinese  buildings.  We 
passed  through  rooms  filled  with  spices  and  roots  that 
were  being  ground  or  chopped,  across  open  courts, 
down  corridors  where  the  deer  are  kept  deep  in  filth — 
this  shop  IS  famous  for  its  deer  medicine.  The  horns 
are  used,  the  skin,  the  flesh,  the  hoofs,  and  I  suppose 


80  * '  L ABOEERS  TOGETHEB ' ' 

the  organs,  for  nothing  is  wasted  in  China.  We 
cUmbed  the  steep  stairs  to  the  roof  where  the  pills 
were  drying  and  we  went  into  the  kitchen  where  the 
pots  were  steaming,  but  we  didn't  buy  any  medicine. 
On  Sunday  we  listened  to  a  good  speaker  give  a  lec- 
ture that  was  as  modern  as  any  doctor  would  give,  so 
we  went  from  the  old  to  the  new  just  as  you  can 
always  do  in  China." 

QUESTIONS 

1.  What  province  comprises  the  Central  China  Mission? 

2.  Give  something  of  its  comparative  size. 

3.  Tell  something  of  the  founding  of  this  Mission. 

4.  Name  our  present  workers  in  Shanghai. 

5.  What  do  you  know  of  Shanghai  Baptist  College? 

6.  Give  a  sketch  of  the  work  at  Soochow. 

7.  Tell  something  of  the  work  In  Chingkiang. 

8.  Tell  something  of  the  work  in  Yangchow. 

9.  What  do  you  know  of  Miss  Julia  Mackenzie? 

10.  Give  a  short  sketch  of  Miss  Kelly's  message. 

11.  Tell  something  of  a  territory  where  we  have  no  work. 


VII 

THE  INTERIOR  CHINA  MISSION 

"  The  people  are  absolutely  devoid  of  any  feeling  in  their  reli- 
gions worship,  which  is  nothing  more  than  a  form.  There  is  no 
reverence  or  veneration  in  connection  of  their  worship  of  hid- 
eous idols  of  mud  and  stone.  Fear  and  superstition  are  the 
factors  that  drive  them  to  worship  these  gods." 

THERE  can  be  no  more  interesting  way  to 
begin  our  study  on  the  Mission  in  Interior 
China  than  by  fixing  in  our  hearts  this  letter 
from  Mrs.  Ida  C.  Lawton,  who  is  giving  her  life  to 
the  field; 

"  Our  baby  mission  in  China  is  called  the  Interior 
China  Mission.  It  is  called  Interior  China  because  it 
is  away  from  the  coast.  We  are  working  in  Honan 
and  part  of  Anhui  Provinces. 

"  Only  fifteen  short  years  ago  a  young  man,  a  native 
of  Kentucky,  W.  Eugene  Sallee,  was  joined  by  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Lawton,  who  had  been  in  the  Central  China 
Mission  eight  or  nine  years,  to  go  into  the  interior  to 
a  new  mission. 

"  We  in  America  like  to  read  about  when  our  fore- 
fathers from  the  eastern  and  southeastern  states  took 
up  their  all,  and  slowly  made  their  way  to  the  *  wild 
and  woolly  west.'     The  comparison  cannot  be  carried 

8i 


82 


*^LABOREES  TOGETHER 


too  far,  for  China  was  inhabited  for  generations  be- 
fore we  came.  But  so  far  as  the  foreigner  was  con- 
cerned, and  so  far  as  the  Gospel  went,  these  workers 
were  on  very  new  territory.  Crowds  would  come 
around  only  to  gaze.  Some  of  the  braver  ones  would 
come  up  and  ask  questions,  and  even  feel  our  clothes 
to  see  what  the  cloth  was  made  of. 

*'  But  fifteen  years  makes  a  big  difference  with  a 
place  when  once  a  railroad  comes. 

"  Of  our  four  central  stations,  three  are  on  the  rail- 
road. Cotton-mills,  egg  factories,  post-offices,  tele- 
graph stations,  electric  plants,  and  many  other  up-to- 
date  improvements  have  come. 

"We  Southern  Baptists  are  hard  at  work  in  Kaifing, 
Chengchau,  Kweiteh  and  Pochow. 


Map  of  Interior  China  Mission 


THE  INTERIOR  CHINA  MISSION  83 

"  We  know  you  will  be  glad  to  help  in  this  work, 
first,  by  your  prayers ;  second,  by  your  contributions ; 
third,  by  helping  to  send  others — your  children  or 
other  dear  relatives — to  help  in  the  work. 


"  The  little  map  is  of  Honan  Province.  The  white 
represents  the  Christians  of  all  denominations  in  the 
whole  province. 

"  Let  us  pray  that  the  black  part,  representing  the 
unconverted,  may  decrease;  and  the  white,  represent- 
ing Christianity,  increase. 

"  ( Signed )    Ida  C.  Lawton/' 

Surely  with  a  more  definite  knowledge  of  her  great 
territory  we  will  pray  and  give  and  go. 

Kaifing 

Leaving  our   Central   China   Mission,   where   our 

Partner  seemingly  needs  all  that  we  have  and  are,  and 

going  partly  by  rail,  partly  by  canal  and  perhaps  partly 

by  wheelbarrow,  we  shall,  after  some  four  or  five  days' 


84  "  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

travel,  reach  this  Interior  Mission  at  the  wonderful 
city  of  Kaifing,  capital  of  the  Province  of  Honan. 
We  have  already  learned  that  Honan  is  one  of  the 
most  populous  of  all  the  Provinces.  It  is  nearly  as 
large  as  Kentucky  and  Tennessee  with  a  population 
seven  times  as  great  as  these  two  states.  Just  im- 
agine if  you  can  a  few  Baptists  working  in  and  around 
Louisville,  Lexington  and  Bowling  Green,  with  all  the 
rest  of  the  Commonwealth  filled  with  millions  of  souls 
in  benighted  darkness.  This  very  feebly  gives  some 
idea  of  the  work  in  Interior  China.  For  ten  years 
we  have  been  working  in  this  great  city — "  a  city  that 
would  have  appealed  to  the  Apostle  Paul  because  of 
the  strategic  importance  as  the  political,  educational 
and  business  center  of  one  of  China's  greatest  prov- 
inces, with  thousands  of  officials,  students  and  soldiers 
who  gather  here  from  all  parts  of  the  Province,  and 
later  scatter  to  all  parts  of  this  great  land,  and  with 
its  tens  of  thousands  of  merchants,  artisans  and 
coolies.  What  an  opportunity  to  preach  the  Gospel 
of  Salvation!" 

Here  we  have  a  beautiful  twelve-acre  tract  of  land 
for  our  Kaifing  Baptist  College  campus.  It  Is  hoped 
that  eight  more  acres  will  soon  be  added.  A  large 
dormitory,  a  residence,  a  chapel  and  several  smaller 
buildings  have  been  erected.  "  The  school  is  strategic- 
ally located  in  one  of  the  greatest  provinces  of  China, 
with  a  population  estimated  at  35,000,000.  In  the 
whole  Province  there  are  only  three  other  (not 
Baptist)  Christian  schools  of  the  same  standard  as 
ours,  and  they  have  all  been  started  within  the  last  few 


THE  INTERIOR  CHINA  MISSION  85 

years.  In  no  other  center  in  China  have  the  Baptists 
a  Hke  opportunity  to  get  in  on  the  ground  floor,  and 
by  the  building  of  a  great  Christian  school,  help  to  win 
a  province  for  Christ." 

Besides  this  College  there  is  a  Boys*  School,  a 
Girls'  High  School  and  several  day  schools.  We 
readily  see  how  large  a  part  education  is  playing  in  this 
field  under  our  workers.  There  are  two  preaching 
stations  in  the  city  and  a  number  of  out  stations. 

In  this  city  there  will  answer  to  our  roll  call: 

Mrs.  W.  E.  Sallee,  Missionary's  Assistant. 

Mrs.  H.  M.  Harris,  Missionary's  Assistant. 

Miss  Loy  J.  Savage,  Teacher,  Evangelist. 

Mrs.  Gordon  Poteat,  Missionary's  Assistant. 

Mrs.  E.  M.  Poteat,  Jr.,  Missionary's  Assistant. 

Miss  Blanche  Rose  Walker,  Evangelist. 

Mrs.  M.  F.  Braun,  Kindergartner,  Evangelist. 

Miss  Addie  Estelle  Cox,  Teacher,  Evangelist. 

Among  all  the  important  matters  we  need  to  study 
together  concerning  this  station,  we  will  note : 

First:  The  practical  application  of  Christianity  as 
evolved  by  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Sallee  in  connection  with  their 
school  work.  Enlightening  the  hearts  and  homes  of 
the  women  and  girls  is  about  the  biggest  work  of  the 
missionary  enterprise.  Here  in  the  Interior,  espe- 
cially, the  minds  and  hearts  of  the  women  are  bound 
up  tightly  like  their  feet.  The  poor  women  toil  and 
moil  and  raise  their  children,  or  watch  them  die,  one 
after  the  other  in  the  dirty  and  overcrowded  room  or 
two  that  they  have;  and  the  more  well-to-do  women 
smoke  their  cigarettes  and  idly  gamble.     Of  course  in 


86  * '  L ABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

spots  there  are  brighter  things,  but  for  the  most  part 
the  picture  of  Chinese  womanhood  in  Honan  is 
pretty  dull  and  sad. 

This  condition  of  things  weighed  so  heavily  on  Mrs. 
Bailee's  heart  that  she  felt  that  there  must  be  some 
solution  for  the  problem.  She  opened  an  industrial 
school  for  the  women  where  they  study  one  hour  each 
day  and  are  examined  on  what  they  study.  She 
teaches  them  to  embroider  and  some  of  the  poor 
women  sell  the  product  of  their  needles  and  thus  earn 
a  little  for  their  families.  They  are  paid  by  the  piece 
for  their  work,  and  these  pieces  are  sold  in  order  to 
run  the  school.  Mrs.  Sallee  has  sent  some  of  this 
beautiful  work  to  America  where  women  clamour  to 
purchase  it.  Special  services  are  held  in  the  school 
and  many  of  the  women  are  beginning  to  listen  to  the 
Gospel  Story  in  a  sympathetic  way  that  is  in  striking 
contrast  to  their  idle  stare  when  they  first  came. 

Whether  it  was  the  outcome  of  his  observation  of 
his  wife's  practical  work  for  the  women  that  caused 
Dr.  Sallee  to  attempt  a  similar  work  for  the  boys' 
school,  we  do  not  know,  nor  does  it  signify.  But  we 
do  know  that  his  great  heart  ached  for  the  many  boys 
and  young  men  who  had  no  means  for  securing  an 
education;  and  who  needed  The  Christ  in  their  lives. 

In  order  to  provide  some  means  of  livelihood  for 
such  students.  Dr.  Sallee  opened  a  dairy  on  a  small 
scale.  He  purchased  one  cow,  and  found  that  the 
work  and  the  sale  of  dairy  products  enabled  him  to 
keep  one  student  for  the  session.  With  this  small 
beginning  he  persevered  until  he  has  secured  pure  bred 


THE  INTERIOR  CHINA  MISSION  87 

Jerseys  and  Holsteins,  to  the  value  of  $10,000.00. 
Before  he  sailed  from  the  Home  Land  with  this  herd, 
during  August,  1920,  he  was  given  by  interested 
friends  sufficient  funds  to  pay  for  transportation. 
We  will  watch  with  keen  pleasure  the  growth  of  this 
missionary  endeavour. 

Second:  A  message  from  Miss  Addie  Estelle  Cox, 
teacher,  who  so  recently  went  to  the  field  finds  a  fitting 
place  here: 

"  When  we  see  miserable  beggars  on  the  streets, 
downcast  souls  bowing  before  idols,  the  superstitious 
cringing  for  fear  of  evil  spirits,  the  unenlightened 
casting  out  dead  babies  for  the  dogs  to  devour,  an- 
cestor worshippers  burning  paper  houses  for  their 
dead  to  use  in  the  next  world,  we  realize  how  sadly 
they  need  the  Saviour.  But  to  make  Him  known  we 
must  first  acquire  the  language,  which  is  no  easy  task 
for  some  of  us.  In  Chinese  each  word  must  have  its 
proper  tone,  else  we  find  ourselves  saying  *  pig '  when 
we  mean  *  Lord.'  After  studying  for  ten  months  it 
became  my  duty  to  substitute  in  the  Girls'  School 
during  Miss  Savage's  furlough.  She  left  a  well 
trained  teacher  and  the  work  has  been  much  less  diffi- 
cult. Mrs.  Hargrove  has  aided  with  valuable  sug- 
gestions, Mrs.  Braun  with  her  kindergarten  help  and 
Mrs.  Herring  and  Miss  Walker  with  the  spiritual  life 
of  the  school.  My  special  work  has  been  with  classes 
in  English,  piano,  singing  and  drawing.  It  is  our 
ardent  prayer  that  these  seventy  girls  may  become 
shining  lights  for  Jesus,  and  to  this  end  we  have 
many  Bible  classes,   morning  and   evening  prayers. 


88  ''  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  '^ 

Sunday  School,  preaching  service  and  Sunbeam 
Bands.  Mrs.  Herring  recently  conducted  a  meeting 
in  which  several  of  the  girls  were  saved." 

Third:  Turning  to  Evangelists  let  Miss  Blanche 
Rose  Walker  speak: 

"  This  year  I  have  felt  akin  to  some  happy  Method- 
ist preacher,  itinerating  from  one  center  to  another  in 
the  city  and  country  work.  From  the  classes  of  in- 
quirers, eight  women  have  been  baptized.  The  em- 
ployed Bible  woman  has  been  returned  to  Peking  and 
the  Christian  women  have  taken  the  responsibility  of 
leading  the  meetings  and  bringing  in  the  heathen. 
This  has  been  a  real  source  of  strength  to  them. 

"  Through  their  W.  M.  U.  they  have  paid  all  ex- 
penses of  two  of  their  numbers  to  go  with  me  on  each 
trip  to  the  out  stations,  and  have  now  in  the  bank 
twenty  dollars  toward  paying  for  a  bell  for  our 
new  chapel.  They  are  giving  five  hundred  dollars 
on  the  Seventy-five  Million  gift.  The  little  Bible 
school  that  we  started  in  the  pantry  has  tugged 
away  at  learning  to  read,  and  has  gone  three 
afternoons  each  to  witness  in  the  villages  and  chapels. 
We  have  opened  a  woman's  chapel  in  the  big  street  in 
the  South  Suburb  and  can  see  that  the  Lord  is  moving 
there.  One  of  His  dear,  quiet  followers  proposed 
that  we  spend  Christmas  in  fasting  and  prayer.  I  be- 
lieve the  Lord  put  this  into  her  heart.  All  the  Chris- 
tian women  gathered  early  at  the  Chapel  that  cold  day. 
We  made  our  offering  to  the  poor,  confessed  our  sins, 
and  prayed  for  power  until  power  came.  Then  we 
went  out  witnessing,  two  by  two,  and  there  was  such 


THE  INTERIOE  CHINA  MISSION  89 

refreshing  from  the  Lord  that  the  women  asked  that 
we  always  spend  Christmas  day  like  that.  The  Vic- 
tory Cable  came  to  us  ten  days  late,  yet  we  knew  that 
the  cable  would  have  read  Victory.  We  pray  much 
that  we  shall  spend  aright  all  the  Lord's  money  that 
you  send  to  China.  Come  to  see  us  too!  God  is 
moving  down  here." 

Chengchow 

The  ancient  city  of  Chengchow  lies  in  a  westerly 
direction  from  Kaifing  and  is  to-day  a  great  railway 
junction.  For  this  reason,  as  well  as  for  the  reason 
that  it  is  the  center  of  millions  of  people,  it  is  an  im- 
portant center. 

And  whom  have  we  here  to  represent  us  among  the 
multitude  ? 

Mrs.  Ida  C.  Lawton,  Missionary's  Assistant. 

Mrs.  W.  D.  Herring,  Missionary's  Assistant. 

Mrs.  Wilson  Fielder,  Missionary's  Assistant. 

The  woman's  work  in  the  various  stations  is 
grouped  around  the  church  and  school  activities. 
Very  often  it  is  the  school  that  opens  the  way  into  the 
homes  of  the  mothers  whose  children  are  reached  in 
the  schoolroom.  Mrs.  Herring,  Mrs.  Lawton  and 
Mrs.  Fielder  are  "  labourers  together  "  as  evangelists 
in  the  home  as  well  as  teachers  in  the  schools.  Mrs. 
Lawton  speaks  of  her  contact  with  Mohammedan 
mothers  through  school  interest.  She  writes  of  "  One 
old  Mohammedan  lady  of  eighty-two  who  has  been 
attending  services  for  two  years,  and  keeps  saying  she 
wants  to  follow  Jesus,  but  has  not  yet  gained  courage 


90  ''  LABOEERS  TOGETHER  " 

enough  to  tear  down  her  idols."  Mrs.  Lawton  adds: 
"  I  have  been  surprised  to  find  idols  in  Mohammedan 
homes." 

Chengchow  is  the  seat  of  one  of  our  hospitals. 
Last  year  557  cases  of  cholera  were  treated  there. 
The  total  number  of  cases  for  the  year  were  10,818. 
Dr.  Louthan  writes:  "  We  are  more  encouraged  than 
we  have  ever  been,  and  hope  that  some  doctor  will 
read  this  report  and  decide  to  come  now  and  help  us. 
The  work  is  hard,  but  success  is  as  sure  as  the  Word 
of  God." 

We  know  his  heart  overflows  with  gratitude  with 
the  knowledge  that  help  is  on  the  way. 

Kwiteh 

In  the  great  city  of  Kwiteh,  which  lies  to  the  south 
of  Kaifing,  Mrs.  Townsend  and  her  consecrated  hus- 
band have  laboured  alone,  so  far  as  reinforcements 
from  the  Home  Land  is  concerned.  For  the  past  year 
he  has  had  to  bear  the  burden  by  himself,  as  Mrs. 
Townsend  was  compelled  to  be  in  England.  Since  he 
did  the  work  for  both,  he  is  at  liberty  to  speak  for  the 
field: 

"  Three  new  churches  have  been  organized  during 
the  year.  These  are  not  yet  supporting  their  own 
pastors  but  their  contributions  more  than  cover  all 
other  expenses.  Last  year  the  Board  paid  $1,500.00 
to  English  friends  for  the  Compound  in  Kwiteh. 
Early  this  year  these  same  friends,  who  still  maintain 
an  interest  in  the  work,  returned  to  us  $1,250.00  of 
this  amount.     With  it  has  been  purchased  some  ad- 


THE  IKTERIOE  CHINA  MISSION  91 

joining  property  for  which  the  Townsends  have  long 
prayed  and  that  was  greatly  needed. 

"  We  have  sent  seven  to  the  Bible  School  at  Cheng- 
chow.  To  and  from  this  city  we  travelled  through 
sleet  and  biting  wind  that  froze  our  clothing  stiff ;  and 
it  speaks  volumes  for  the  students  that  not  one 
*  groused '  or  gave  up.  Our  people  are  going  to  do 
their  part  and  more  in  the  Seventy-five  Million  Cam- 
paign. We  are  only  two  in  this  station  and  we  have 
prayed  long  for  more  workers.  It  will  be  a  glad  day 
for  Kwiteh  when  we  can  sing  *  Reinforcements  now 
appearing.'  Anyway,  victory  is  ours  through  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ." 

Pochow 

Far  to  the  southeast  of  Kwiteh  in  the  Province  of 
Anwhei  is  situated  Pochow,  the  only  city  in  that  vast 
Province  where  we  have  work. 

Imagine  Nashville,  and  surroundings,  as  the  only 
station  we  hold  in  Tennessee.  This  will  give  some 
small  idea  of  the  situation.  Pochow  and  its  sur- 
rounding counties  has  a  population  of  about  4,000,000. 
Our  Board  took  over  the  work  that  has  been  started 
here  some  ten  years  ago  by  the  Gospel  Mission  Breth- 
ren. But  up  to  this  time  we  have  done  very  little  with 
it,  having  added  but  one  new  worker. 

Mrs.  W.  D.  Bostock  and  Mrs.  C.  P.  Bostick  have 
stood  side  by  side  of  their  faithful  husbands  for  this 
half  decade  in  this  dark  field ;  and  fewer  of  our  sisters 
over  there  deserve  greater  credit  for  faithfulness. 

Last  year  Miss  Olive  Riddell  was  allowed  the  privi- 


92  "LABOEEES  TOGETHER" 

lege  of  joining  them ;  and  now  others  are  on  the  way 
to  help  lift  the  load.  But  as  these  together  labour  for 
God  in  the  schoolroom,  on  the  field  and  in  the  home,  it 
is  their  great  joy  to  see  results  of  their  work. 

One  great  need  of  this  big  City  of  Pochow,  and  its 
surrounding  country,  is  a  hospital  and  physicians  to 
look  after  the  physical  condition  of,  not  only  the  vast 
hordes  of  dying  natives,  but  of  our  Partners  them- 
selves. 

QUESTIONS 

1.  Tell  something  of  the  opening  of  our  Interior  China  Mis- 

sion. 

2.  Who  represents  us  in  Kaifing? 

3.  Give  an  account  of  the  efforts  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Sallee  in 

making  a  practical  appHcation  of   Christianity  in  their 
school  work. 

4.  What  does  Miss  Blanche  Rose  Walker  say  of  Evangelism? 

5.  Who  are  our  workers  in  Chengchow  ? 

6.  Tell  something  of  the  Hospital  in  Chengchow. 

7.  Give  a  brief  sketch  of  our  work  in  Kwiteh. 

8.  Give  a  sketch  of  the  work  and  workers  in  Pochow. 

9.  What  is  one  great  need  in  Pochow? 

10.     What  are  you  doing  to  supply  that  need? 


VIII 
THE  NORTH  CHINA  MISSION 

"  Before  corning  to  China  we  had  had  the  conception  that  foot- 
binding  among  the  women  was  a  thing  of  the  past.  A  trip  in- 
land soon  disillusioned  us,  however.  This  cruel  custom  is  prac- 
ticed extensively  in  this  section.  It  is  pitiable  to  see  the  poor 
women  and  girls  hobbling  along  on  their  small  crippled  feet" 
(J.  V.  Larson,  1920). 

TREAD  softly,  friend.  We  are  approaching 
that  land  made  sacred  by  the  footsteps  which 
for  forty  years  marked  out  the  King's  High- 
way for  those  who  should  follow.  Let  us  pause  and 
breathe  a  prayer  of  thanksgiving  for  the  life  and 
labours  of  Lottie  Moon. 

Our  North  China  Mission  is  located  in  the  great 
Province  of  Shantung,  that  vital  province  in  North 
and  East  China  over  which  there  has  been  so  much 
conflict  of  late. 

It  has  a  population  of  6,000,000  more  people  than 
in  all  the  Southern  Baptist  Territory  lying  in  the 
United  States.  It  is  very  little  larger  than  Maryland 
and  Virginia,  and  has  twelve  times  more  people  than 
these  two  states  combined. 

Our  work  in  this  field  has  prospered,  but  there  are 
still  vast  regions  untouched  by  the  Gospel.  Nine  sta- 
tions have  been  opened — more  than  in  any  other  mis- 
sion in  the  country, 

93 


94 


LABOEEES  TOGETHER 


Again  we  will  make  some  geographical  comparisons 
that  are  wide  of  the  mark;  but  they  will  aid  us  in  a 
way  to  grasp  the  situation. 


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Map  of  North  China  Mission 

Should  we  place  Shantung  over  Virginia  and  Mary- 
land, Chefoo  would  fall  somewhere  in  the  region  of 
Washington;  Tengchow  toward  Baltimore;  Whang- 
hein  in  the  vicinity  of  Richmond;  Laichow  about 
Lynchburg;  Layang  near  Norfolk;  Pingtu  toward 
Portsmouth;  Taian  over  Roanoke;  Tsingtau  and 
Tsinan  in  regions  adjoining  Staunton  and  Charlottes- 
ville. 

On  this  field  our  working  force  consists  of: 
Tengchow:  Mesdames  W.  W.  Adams,  T.  F.  Mc- 
Rea,  Misses  Ida  Taylor,  Florence  Lide  and  Ada  Bell. 


THE  NORTH  CHINA  MISSION  95 

Hwanghein:  Mesdames  T.  W.  Ayres,  W.  C.  New- 
ton, W.  B.  Glass,  W.  W.  Stout,  Misses  Anna  B.  Hart- 
well,  Clifford  Hunter,  Blanche  Bradley,  J.  W.  Lyde, 
Lila  F.  Watson. 

Pingtu:  Mesdames  W.  H.  Sears,  A.  W.  Yeakin, 
David  Bryan,  Misses  Florence  Jones,  Pearl  Caldwell, 
Bonnie  Ray. 

Laichow:  Mesdames  J.  M.  Gaston,  E.  L.  Morgan, 
C.  A.  Leonard,  Misses  Mary  D.  Willeford,  A.  S.  Mil- 
ler, Alice  Huey,  Bertha  Smith,  Dr.  Jeanette  E.  Beall. 

Chef 00 :  Mesdames  Peyton  Stephens,  C.  W.  Pruitt, 
Miss  Ethel  Ramsbottom. 

Laiyang:  Mesdames  T. O. Hearne,  Jewell  L.Daniel, 
I.  V.  Larson. 

Taian:  Mesdames  J.  V.  Dawes,  Frank  Connerly, 
Miss  Attie  Bostick. 

Tsingtau:  Mrs.  S.  E.  Stephens. 

Tsinan:  Mesdames  P.  S.  Evans,  J.  W.  Lowe. 

Just  exactly  forty  names  we  find  by  count.  This 
list  may  seem  quite  a  lengthy  one  for  us  to  become  ac- 
quainted with  at  one  time,  and  by  referring  to  Chap- 
ter IX  you  will  note  the  Seventy-five  Million  Cam- 
paign has  enabled  us  to  add  a  few  more  names  to  the 
field.  But  suppose  we  had  only  a  few  more  than  forty 
sisters  doing  the  work  in  the  States  of  Maryland,  Vir- 
ginia and  the  District  of  Columbia? 

Each  station  in  this  North  China  Mission  is  most 
important  because  each  is  a  strategic  center.  Would 
that  we  would  allow  ourselves  to  devote  time  and 
space  to  each  until  we  were  thoroughly  acquainted 
with  its  needs,  its  problems  and  its  possibilities! 


96  ' '  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE »' 

Tengchow 

Tengchow  native  Christians  throughout  all  their 
past  and  even  now  are  suffering  from  lawless  kidnap- 
per bands,  coming  in  from  Manchuria.  More  than 
one  home  has  been  visited  by  them  recently.  These 
Christian  homes  are  raided,  and  inmates  carried  away 
and  held  for  enormous  ransoms;  as  large  a  sum  as 
$25,000.00  sometimes. 

This  field  has  also  in  the  recent  past  been  visited  by 
a  severe  cholera  epidemic,  which  cost  the  country  be- 
tween 15,000  and  20,000  lives.  "  For  some  weeks  the 
entire  missionary  force  aided  by  natives  devoted  their 
whole  time  to  relief  work.  During  the  time  the  Lord 
graciously  spared  all  the  missionaries  from  this  awful 
disease,  and  deaths  among  the  native  Christians  were 
comparatively  few." 

We  have  compared  Tengchow  to  our  beloved  city 
of  Baltimore.  Can  we  imagine  foes  like  these  same 
harassing  this  city  ? 

Miss  Ada  Bell,  who  gives  her  time  to  the  Boys' 
School  and  to  the  Kindergarten  at  Tengchow,  reports 
glowingly  of  her  "  Royal  Ambassador  "  Band,  with 
an  enrollment  of  twenty,  and  which  has  contributed 
$10.00  for  the  fiscal  year. 

Hwanghien 
At  Hwanghien  all  of  our  institutions  are  located 
outside  of  the  city  for  the  reason  that  for  thirty  years 
the  missionaries  worked  there  before  permission  to 
even  rent  a  building  in  the  city  was  granted.  For  the 
past  several  years,  however,  the  door  has  been  opened 


THE  NOETH  CHINA  MISSION  97 

and  we  have  now  gained  a  foothold  inside.  There  is 
every  reason  to  believe  that  we  can  have  a  great  work 
in  this  wonderful  commercial  city  if  we  can  provide 
the  proper  church  building.  And  the  few  missionaries 
there  are  looking  with  longing  eyes  to  see  how  faithful 
Southern  Baptists  will  be  in  redeeming  their  pledges 
to  the  Campaign.  For  their  hope  lies  in  the  collection 
of  Campaign  Funds. 

The  Bush  Theological  Seminary  is  located  in 
Hwanghein.  Here  we  also  have  the  Carter  Girls* 
School.  The  graduating  class  of  1919  in  this  school 
consisted  of  twelve  girls,  all  Christians;  and  six  of 
them  are  volunteers  for  evangelistic  work  among 
women  when  their  training  is  completed.  One  other 
member  of  the  class  plans  to  study  medicine. 

Do  we  pause  to  consider  if  among  our  Christian 
schools  so  large  a  percentage  of  any  class  are  volun- 
teers ? 

Dr.  Ray  says  of  this  school:  "  The  present  building 
should  be  torn  down  and  built  on  another  site.  The 
present  building  is  unsafe.  Both  the  location  and  the 
building  are  very  poor.  There  are  sixty  girls  in  this 
school  and  a  long  waiting  list.  Accommodations 
should  be  provided  for  one  hundred.'* 

Would  that  some  one  of  our  Baptist  Colleges  would 
take  this  school  specially  under  its  wing,  and  hover 
over  it  till  strength  and  growth  made  help  no  longer 
necessary ! 

As  has  already  been  stated,  the  Warren  Memorial 
Hospital  Is  located  in  Hwanghien,  being  one  of  three 
hospitals  In  North  China.     Perhaps  in  no  phase  of  the 


98  ''  LABOEEES  TOQETHEE  " 

work  is  help  so  much  needed  as  in  these  hospitals. 
"  It  is  doubtful  if  Southern  Baptists  have  ever  spent 
an  equal  amount  of  money  on  medical  work  that  has 
brought  such  far-reaching  results.  The  pity  for  the 
poor  tortured  bodies  has  made  it  easier  for  the  people 
to  believe  that  we  have  come  to  China  because  we 
pitied  their  souls  even  more." 

The  Woman's  Evangelistic  work  in  this  field  de- 
serves more  than  a  passing  word,  because  of  wonder- 
ful results  springing  from  their  Fifty  Thousand  Cam- 
paign, put  on  when  Southern  Baptists  put  on  the  Sev- 
enty-five Million  Campaign.  With  this  difference, 
however:  The  women  of  the  South  proposed  to  pledge 
one-fifth  of  the  amount  named.  The  women  of  China 
one-third  of  their  sum.  True  the  W.  M.  U.  here  gave 
more  than  one-fifth;  but  the  women  of  Hwanghien 
and  other  stations  gave  far  more  than  one-third,  and 
Miss  Hartwell  says,  "  The  giving  of  money  was  a 
small  part  of  the  Campaign." 

Pingtu 
Our  Pingtu  Station  is  represented  here  by  Miss 
Pearl  Caldwell.     She  speaks  of: 

The  Woman's  Evangelistic  Work 
This  work  was  opened  years  ago  by  Miss  Lottie 
Moon,  who  made  long  four-day  overland  trips  from 
Tengchow.  She  sometimes  spent  several  months  at  a 
time  in  this  district.  Many  people  tell  us  now,  "  I 
heard  the  Message  first  from  Miss  Moon."    Our  great 


THE  NOETH  CHINA  MISSION  99 

pastor  Li  heard  the  Message  first  from  this  consecrated 
woman.  Many  even  among  the  heathen  remember 
her  lovingly. 

The  work  has  suffered  at  times  for  lack  of 
missionaries  to  direct  the  work,  sometimes  two  and 
three  years  at  a  time  with  no  special  supervision. 
However,  we  have  a  great  and  growing  work ;  God  is 
blessing  us  in  this  field,  many  are  seeking  the  ''  way  " 
to  know.  We  were  expecting  to  have  this  year  nine- 
teen Bible  women,  or  one  for  each  church,  but  the  need 
is  so  pressing  in  our  Home  Mission  work  further 
West  that  we  have  given  up  four  of  these  to  be  mis- 
sionaries under  our  Home  Mission  Board.  This 
leaves  us  fifteen  for  this  and  adjoining  counties.  The 
remaining  twelve  are  located  one  to  each  church  as  far 
as  they  go.  Each  Bible  woman  is  leader  for  the 
Christian  women  in  her  district  holding  meetings  with 
them  and  visiting  with  them  in  the  homes,  teaching 
them  to  memorize  Scripture  verses,  to  pray,  to  sing 
and  to  read  a  little.  She  is  even  on  the  alert  for  open- 
ings into  heathen  homes  and  is  the  means  of  bringing 
many  to  Christ.  Through  the  earnest  work  of  the 
evangelists  often  two  or  three  men  become  Christians 
in  near-by  villages.  It  is  then  the  Bible  woman's  privi- 
lege to  enter  the  home  and  teach  the  women  folk  to 
know  Christ.  These  Bible  women  come  in  bi-monthly 
for  conferences,  to  report  on  work  and  to  make  plans 
for  future  work  and  for  Bible  study.  Besides  this  we 
have  ten  days  or  two  weeks'  Bible  study  with  them 
twice  each  year,  this  with  the  thought  of  strengthening 
them  for  their  work. 


lOO  "LABOREES  TOGETHER" 

Much  of  the  missionaries'  time  is  spent  right  out  in 
the  villages  working  with  the  Bible  women  by  turn  in 
their  respective  fields.  Classes  are  held  for  both 
Christians  and  inquirers,  strengthening  these  babes 
in  Christ  and  helping  others  to  understand  the  way  of 
life.  Then  often  day  trips  are  made  from  these  vari- 
ous centers  to  villages  where  there  are  a  few  isolated 
Christians  to  encourage  them  and  strengthen  them  in 
the  faith  and  to  present  Christ  to  their  friends  and 
neighbours.  Sometimes  it  happens  that  no  foreigner 
has  visited  the  village  before,  then  of  course  there  are 
many  curious  onlookers.  But  we  seldom,  if  ever,  visit 
a  place  until  there  is  at  least  one  Christian  or  more.  It 
seems  wiser  for  the  Chinese  brethren  and  sisters  to 
first  "  break  the  ground  "  among  their  own  people  and 
the  inquirers  will  be  ready  for  the  teaching  that  the 
missionary  can  give. 

One  of  the  greatest  hindrances  to  our  work  is  the 
illiteracy  of  the  women.  Very,  very  few  can  read 
their  Bibles  intelligently.  Last  spring  we  organized 
some  forty  or  fifty  "  Search  the  Scripture  "  bands  to 
try  to  help  these  illiterates.  Not  that  they  can  search 
the  Scripture  for  themselves,  but  in  a  community 
where  we  found  ten  more  or  less  Christian  women  and 
girls  these  bands  were  organized  if  there  could  be  one 
found  to  lead,  which  usually  we  could.  In  most  cases 
it  was  the  young  lady  who  teaches  the  day  school,  or 
the  Bible  woman.  Sometimes  an  old  man  was  invited 
to  lead  and  sometimes  a  little  schoolboy.  We  used 
simple  Bible  stories,  one  to  be  told  at  each  meeting, 
also  one  Scripture  verse  to  be  memorized  and  one 


Above,  Two  Chinese  Saints 
Below,  Little  Girls  of  China  Loving  Dolls  from  America 


THE  NORTH  CHINA  MISSION  101 

stanza  of  a  hymn  to  be  memorized.  This,  wkh  prayer 
and  review  of  the  previous  Sunday's  work,  constituted 
the  service.     This  has  been  a  help  to  many. 

We  now  have  adopted  the  National  Phonetic  Script 
and  are  beginning  to  teach  some  of  them  to  read. 

There  are  nine  W.  M.  S.  and  five  Sunbeam  Bands 
in  the  Compound  all  doing  good  work.  They  do  not 
measure  up  to  the  W.  M.  S.  at  home,  but  it  is  good  to 
see  their  willingness  to  do  what  they  can. 

One  of  the  encouraging  features  of  mission  work  is 
the  definite  answers  to  prayer  that  some  of  the  Chris- 
tians have.  Little  Grandmother  Chang,  aged  seventy- 
seven,  who  has  been  a  Christian  only  a  year,  told  me 
her  story.  Her  body  is  stooped  and  drawn  with  age, 
but  the  light  of  Heaven  is  in  her  eyes.  Hers  has  been 
a  sad  story.  Their  only  son  went  away  to  Manchuria 
to  seek  work  that  he  might  send  money  to  support  his 
aged  parents  and  wife  and  three  little  boys.  This  was 
twelve  years  ago.  The  months  slipped  by  with  no 
word  from  this  son,  then  the  years  till  eleven  had 
passed.  Some  thought  he  must  be  dead,  but  the  fond 
mother  still  looked  and  longed  for  her  son.  After  she 
became  a  Christian  she  began  to  pray  for  the  return  of 
her  son.  She  prayed  earnestly  for  six  months,  when 
one  bright  day  a  letter  containing  a  few  dollars  came 
from  the  son.  There  was  joy  beyond  measure  in  the 
little  home  that  day.  The  son  was  still  living  and  had 
not  forgotten  them.  Hastily  a  letter  was  written  beg- 
ging that  he  come  home  and  see  his  old  father  and 
mother  before  it  was  too  late.  But  he  did  not  come. 
He  had  fallen  into  bad  ways,  had  spent  his  money  as 


102  ' '  LABOEERS  TOGETHER  " 

fast  as  he  made  it.  He  could  not  go  home  empty- 
handed.  The  Httle  mother's  faith,  strengthened  by  the 
letter,  continued  to  plead  for  his  return.  The  Spirit 
continually  stirred  him  to  go  home,  but  having  no 
money  he  had  no  face  to  see  his  old  parents.  Before 
many  weeks,  however,  fortune  turned  his  way.  He 
had  bought  a  small  lot  and  the  Japanese,  wishing  to 
put  a  railroad  through  the  place,  bought  his  lot,  paying 
him  many  times  what  he  had  invested.  Thus  with  his 
pockets  full  of  money  (about  $600.00),  he  happily 
turned  his  face  homeward.  Just  nine  months  after 
his  mother  became  a  Christian  and  began  praying  for 
him,  he  was  safely  in  the  home.  As  she  told  me  this 
story  she  said,  "  God  does  answer  our  prayers."  She 
is  now  praying  for  his  conversion. 

We  now  have  on  our  Fifty  Thousand  Dollar  Cam- 
paign, which  may  seem  very  small  to  the  people  at 
home,  who  think  and  give  in  millions.  And  to 
our  other  missions  in  China  it  will  likely  sound 
small,  but  for  these  Shantung  Christians  it  is  not 
small.  It  can  truly  be  said  in  some  cases,  "  Their 
deep  poverty  abounded  unto  the  riches  of  their  lib- 
erality.'* We  are  happy  indeed  to  see  how  they  are 
responding.  One  woman  so  poor  that  she  cooks 
only  one  meal  a  day,  and  then  at  night  she  and 
the  two  little  ones  eat  a  piece  of  cold  bread,  gave  what 
seemed  to  be  more  than  their  share,  but  she  did  it 
gladly  in  order  to  help  her  people  know  Christ.  We 
believe  that  we  will  go  over  the  top.  (And  they  went 
over!)  This  giving  for  others  and  reaching  out  to 
help  others  is  going  to  help  wonderfully  in  developing 


THE  NOETH  CHINA  MISSION  103 

Christians.  Many  have,  besides  giving,  promised  to 
pray  daily  and  to  try  to  lead  at  least  one  to  our  Sa- 
viour this  year. 

On  the  whole  our  country  work  is  most  hopeful  and 
encouraging,  but  our  hearts  ache  for  the  city.  Some- 
how we  have  not  been  able  to  reach  them  as  we  have 
the  country  folk.  Perhaps  we  have  not  put  forth  the 
effort  in  the  city  that  we  have  in  other  places.  Then, 
too,  they  are  more  conservative.  They  are,  however, 
most  friendly,  gladly  welcoming  us  into  their  homes 
and  visiting  freely  in  our  homes.  But  they  find  it 
hard  to  leave  the  paths  their  fathers  have  trod. 

Laichow 

Miss  Cynthia  Miller,  from  the  Laichow  field,  lays 
upon  our  hearts  a  work  that  is  pressing  heavily  upon 
her  own.     Will  we  not  help  her  bear  this  burden? 

"  I  am  sorry  but  I  haven't  the  time  to  do  justice  to 
this  important  task.  I  have  just  come  in  from  the 
country  to  get  ready  to  go  again  and  there  are  so  many 
things  to  look  after  before  I  get  off.  Every  night  I  go 
into  the  city  chapel,  which  is  a  twenty  minutes'  walk, 
and  spend  one  and  a  half  hours  there  in  our  night 
school  for  Government  schoolboys,  where  we  teach 
them  the  Bible  and  the  new  phonetic  spelling  and  read- 
ing. The  Evangelist  can  teach  the  Bible  lesson,  but 
there  is  no  one  else  who  can  teach  the  phonetics  but 
me,  and  I  feel  that  this  is  so  important  that  I  just  must 
put  in  every  minute  I  can  on  it  when  I  am  at  home. 
I  spend  most  of  my  time  in  the  country  when  the 
weather  is  so  I  can  go  to  the  country  because  there  is 


104       "LABOEEES  TOGETHEE^' 

no  one  else  to  look  after  the  woman's  evangelistic 
work  now  while  Miss  Williford  is  on  furlough. 

"  This  station  was  opened  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lowe 
and  Miss  Williford  in  1900.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Glass, 
from  Texas,  came  next,  but  have  been  transferred  to 
another  station  several  years  and  Mrs.  Glass  has  been 
called  home  to  Heaven  since.  Next  came  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Huckaby,  in  1904,  but  both  soon  contracted  tu- 
berculosis and  had  to  return  home  before  they  had 
been  here  two  years,  and  a  year  after  they  returned 
home  both  died  of  the  dread  disease,  just  one  month's 
difference  in  their  deaths. 

"  Then  I  came  out  in  1905,  and  Miss  Huey  in  1907, 
and  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Gaston,  then  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leonard, 
then  Miss  Smith,  and  last  Dr.  Beall,  who  has  been  out 
only  a  little  over  a  year.  She  is  still  at  work  on  the 
language.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Gaston  have  charge  of  the 
medical  work  and  Dr.  Beall  will  also  be  associated 
with  them  in  this  department  when  she  finishes  her 
language  course.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leonard  have  charge 
of  the  Boys'  School  and  Men's  Evangelistic  Work. 
Miss  Huey  is  now  relieving  Miss  Williford  in  the 
Woman's  Bible  School  and  formerly  had  charge  of 
the  girls'  schools.  I  am  hoping  she  will  be  released 
for  Evangelistic  work  when  Miss  Williford  returns, 
for  it  IS  more  than  one  person  can  possibly  do ;  in  fact, 
ten  could  keep  busy  in  it,  and  still  be  room  for  more. 
The  Women's  Evangelistic  Work  is  my  work  at  pres- 
ent, with  the  addition  of  this  new  branch  of  work — 
teaching  the  phonetic  system  to  both  men  and  women. 
The  Chinese  Government  is  getting  enthusiastic  on  the 


THE  NOETH  CHINA  MISSION  105 

subject  of  having  their  people  educated,  and  have 
adopted  this  system  of  phonetic  spelUng  to  teach  the 
ilHterates.  They  have  at  last  awakened  to  a  partial 
realization  of  the  dense  ignorance  of  their  country 
which  is  bringing  her  to  certain  ruin  unless  something 
is  done  very  soon.  China's  non-Christian  illiterates 
amount  to  the  astounding  sum  of  324,000,000 !  Chris- 
tian illiterates,  188,000.  Non-Christian  literates  are 
36,000,000  and  Christian  literates  125,000.  Isn't  this 
a  terrible  record  for  any  country !  You  can  see  how 
it  behooves  us  to  press  the  education  of  the  Christians 
now,  for  it  will  be  too  late  when  the  Government 
schools  have  already  educated  in  infidelity,  which  they 
are  rapidly  beginning  to  do.  I  wish  you  could  see  the 
girls  and  women  who  are  sent  out  by  the  Government 
to  teach  the  young  women  and  girls  of  China.  They 
are  unbinding  their  feet  but  adopting  many  modern 
and,  sad  to  say,  foreign  styles,  cigarette  smoking  being 
one  of  their  most  up-to-date  styles !  Recently  we  had  a 
request  from  a  heathen  community  where  they  have 
decided  to  try  to  have  a  school  for  women  and  girls, 
and  they  said,  *  We  want  one  of  your  Christian  young 
women,  because  their  conduct  is  good.  We  could  get 
a  Government  school  teacher,  but  their  conduct  is  so 
bad,  smoking  cigarettes  and  binding  their  feet.'  We 
had  no  teacher  to  send  them  but  we  sent  a  Bible 
woman  to  begin  the  school  and  tide  over  till  a  class 
graduates  in  June. 

"  Prejudice  is  breaking  down  against  Christianity 
among  the  more  intelligent  people  now  in  a  wonderful 
way,  but  this  *  more  intelligent  class '  are  so  very  few 


106  < '  L ABOEERS  TOGETHER  " 

comparatively,  and  Satan  is  not  going  to  give  up  his 
strongholds  without  many  a  hard  battle  yet,  so  we 
have  work  ahead  of  us !  This  has  been  the  most  prof- 
itable year  of  my  life  in  service.  We  have  had  a  won- 
derful blessing  poured  upon  us,  but  this  blessing  has 
brought  with  it  overwhelming  responsibility! 

"  This  field  right  here  is  one  of  the  most  densely 
populated  parts  of  China,  and  therefore  the  most  pov- 
erty-stricken. But  for  the  plagues  of  cholera,  flu, 
pneumonic,  bubonic  and  all  the  other  plagues  that 
come  to  claim  their  thousands  of  victims  almost  yearly 
I  do  not  know  what  the  people  would  do.  As  it  is, 
about  one-third  of  the  male  population  go  off  to  Man- 
churia, Russia  and  other  countries  to  keep  from  starv- 
ing and  thousands  upon  thousands  go  never  to  return 
and  their  wives  and  mothers  and  little  children  are  left 
here  to  suffer  from  hunger  and  abuse,  for  there  are  no 
laws,  or  if  there  are  any,  they  are  not  enforced,  to  pro- 
tect such  women  and  children,  and  neither  are  there 
any  institutions  to  help  them.  Every  year,  no  doubt, 
there  are  thousands  of  young  women  who  commit  sui- 
cide to  escape  a  life  of  shame,  while  thousands  of  others 
are  either  sold  by  some  cruel  relative  or  sell  their  vir- 
tue themselves  to  keep  from  starving.  To  commit 
suicide  is  considered  the  most  heroic  thing  to  do.  It  is 
really  looked  upon  as  a  virtue.  You  often  hear  people 
remark  when  they  hear  of  a  woman  committing  sui- 
cide, *  Well,  she  has  obtained  virtue  and  will  not  have 
to  suffer  any  more.'  As  I  heard  one  woman  say  recently 
when  she  heard  of  a  young  woman  committing  suicide, 
*  Well,  there  is  one  thing  sure ;  when  she  transmigrates 


THE  NOETH  CHINA  MISSION  107 

it  will  not  be  to  exist  again  as  a  suffering  woman,  and 
maybe  when  she  comes  into  existence  again  she  will  be 
made  over  and  punish  those  who  imposed  on  her  in  this 
life.'  Oh,  their  superstitious  beliefs  are  appalling.  I 
heard  an  old  woman  say  the  other  day,  '  My  life  has 
been  one  of  nothing  but  sorrow  and  distress;  I  don't 
know  what  generation  of  my  ancestors  it  was  that 
sinned  so  terribly  as  to  bring  on  me  so  much  suffering.' 
When  I  told  her  that  I  could  tell  her  what  generation 
or  generations  it  was,  for  more  than  one  was  at  fault, 
she  was  ready  with  wide-open  mouth  and  eyes  to  hear 
the  new  fortune  teller  '  swan  her  ming,'  that  is,  tell 
her  fortune.  Then  I  began  at  Adam  and  Eve  and 
showed  her  how  the  human  race  had  fallen,  and  that 
she  herself  had  really  had  a  part  in  bringing  about  this 
state  of  suffering.  When  I  got  through  she  said,  '  Ke 
Boo  sih  nendy '  ('  Now  doesn't  it  look  like  it  is  just 
that  way  ').  Then  she  went  on  to  enumerate  some  of 
her  own  sins  and  said,  '  Do  you  mean  to  tell  me  that  I 
myself  will  have  to  suffer  for  the  sins  I  have  com- 
mitted in  this  life?  Why,  I  thought  the  punishment 
for  my  sins  would  come  on  some  future  generation 
that  I  didn't  know  anything  about.' 

"Another  little  branch  of  work  In  which  I  am  very 
much  interested  is  an  industrial  home  for  these  same 
women  and  girls  of  whom  I  spoke  above;  young 
women  who  have  been  left  without  protection  or  sup- 
port, and  old  women  left  without  support.  Our  Board 
does  not  support  work  like  that,  but  it  seems  to  me  that 
there  isn't  anything  more  important  to  teach  these 
people  practical  Christianity,  and  I  have  been  doing 


108  ' '  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

such  work  along  through  the  years  ever  since  I  have 
been  in  China,  and  supporting  it  myself.  Of  course  it 
is  on  a  very  small  scale.  I  couldn't  support  anything 
that  cost  very  much,  but  the  results  I  have  had  have 
been  very  gratifying,  with  the  few  cases  I  have  been 
able  to  rescue.  The  first  was  a  young  widow  with 
three  little  girls.  When  her  third  girl  was  born  her 
husband  walked  out  and  told  her  that  she  should  never 
see  his  face  again;  angry  at  her  because  all  her  chil- 
dren were  girls  and  she  would  not  consent  to  his  kill- 
ing them.  The  one  living  now  who  is  the  third  is  in- 
deed not  the  third,  but  the  fourth.  The  husband 
strangled  the  third  one  soon  after  it  was  born  and 
started  to  slay  this  one  but  she  plead  for  her  and  told 
him  she  would  be  responsible  for  her  living  if  he 
would  spare  her.  Then  he  said,  '  Well,  I  will  go  and 
you  shall  see  me  no  more,  and  see  how  you  will  make 
a  living  for  all  this  house  full  of  girls.' 

"After  he  was  gone  his  brothers  began  negotiating 
with  some  one  to  sell  her  and  her  little  girlies.  She 
was  a  pretty  young  woman  and  would  have  sold  for  a 
good  price,  but  some  one  took  pity  on  her  and  told  her 
of  their  plans  and  she  ran  away  in  the  middle  of  the 
night  carrying  the  little  one  in  her  bosom  and  leading 
the  other  two.  She  went  through  the  fields  until  she 
got  to  a  sister  who  was  married  into  a  Christian  (Pres- 
byterian) family,  and  then  her  sister  brought  her  here 
and  begged  me  to  take  her.  I  had  no  place  for  her  at 
first,  so  gave  her  a  little  something  to  keep  from  suf- 
fering, and  some  of  the  other  missionaries  and  I  gave 
her  a  little  sewing  to  do  and  let  her  two  eldest  girls  go 


THE  NOBTH  CHINA  MISSION  109 

to  the  little  school.  Soon  after  I  took  her  and  trained 
her  as  a  nurse  and  kept  her  children  in  school  until  she 
got  to  where  she  could  support  them  very  well  herself. 
She  has  finished  the  Nurses'  Training  Course  and  had 
a  couple  of  years  in  the  Bible  Training  School.  Her 
eldest  daughter  is  now  teaching,  the  next  eldest  ex- 
pects to  graduate  in  June  this  year,  and  the  youngest 
is  just  a  sweet,  bright  pupil  and  was  baptized  this  last 
year.  All  three  of  the  girls  are  Christians  now  and 
their  mother  is  the  president  of  our  Woman's  Mission- 
ary Society.  She  is  a  tither;  has  been  giving  a  tenth 
for  many  years,  though  it  was  pretty  hard  for  her  to 
make  ends  meet  sometimes  and  keep  the  girls  in  school, 
but  she  always  managed  some  way,  and  now  she  is 
head  nurse  and  makes  a  very  good  salary  and  is  a  very 
valuable  woman  in  the  medical  work.  Time  and  space 
forbid  my  telling  you  the  story  of  any  of  the  other 
cases,  but  I  have  in  this  way  been  able  to  rescue 
eighteen  people,  all  of  whom  are  living  and  doing  well 
now,  and  unless  something  had  been  done  they  would 
no  doubt  be  dead  or  worse  than  dead.  I  am  sure  if 
you  Christian  friends  could  be  here  on  the  field  and  see 
these  things  for  yourselves  you  would  so  plan  that  we 
could  teach  these  people  applied  Christianity  by  rescu- 
ing the  perishing  and  lifting  up  the  fallen. 

"Of  all  these  eighteen  people  named  I  am  support- 
ing only  three  now.  All  of  the  rest  are  useful  people 
and  not  dependent  any  more.  The  three  that  are 
here  now  are  an  old  blind  Christian  woman,  who  spins 
wool  and  plaits  straw  braid,  and  a  widow  and  her  little 
seven-year-old  boy.     She  was  rescued  from  suicide. 


110  '  *  LABOEEES  TOGETHER  ^ ' 

The  blind  woman  is  now  learning  to  read.  The 
younger  woman  makes  raised  characters  on  paste- 
board by  punching  it  with  an  awl  and  in  that  way  is 
teaching  her  to  read  in  the  phonetic  script. 

"  I  have  told  you  this  much  about  our  little  indus- 
trial class  and  rescue  home  hoping  that  you  will  be 
praying  for  me  as  I  present  it  to  the  Mission  and  to 
the  Board.  I  feel  sure  that  God  has  led  me  thus  far 
in  this  work.  What  I  want  is  that  the  Board  will  take 
charge  of  this  work  and  send  out  some  one  to  run  it  on 
a  larger  scale  and  thus  save  more  people  to  be  useful 
in  the  Master's  service.  I  do  not  want  to  have  charge 
of  a  work  of  this  kind  myself  but  just  want  it  done, 
and  of  course  will  still  do  all  I  can  toward  its  support." 

Chefoo 
Chefoo  is  the  most  strategical  point  in  the  evangeli- 
zation of  China,  because  of  its  position  geographically, 
politically  and  commercially.  (You  will  remember 
that  we  have  placed  it  over  Washington!)  Here  Mrs. 
Peyton  Stephens,  Mrs.  Pruitt  and  Miss  Ethel  Rams- 
bottom  are  doing  the  work  of  a  dozen  women  and  are 
looking  longingly  toward  the  Home  Land  for  recruits, 
that  seem  so  slow  going  to  their  assistance. 

Laiyang 
In  this  county,  seventy  by  eighty  miles  square,  and 
containing  a  million  people,  for  over  two  years  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Hearn  with  their  little  girl  were  the  only 
white  people.  In  addition  to  the  care  of  five  churches 
and  the  supervision  of  the  evangelistic  work  on  this 


Above,  Group  of  Bible  Women.     Below,  Blind  Woman  Weaving 

For  years  she  was  Demon-possessed.     She  is  now  one  of  our 

Finest  Christian  Characters 


THE  NOETH  CHINA  MISSION  111 

large  field,  these  missionaries  have  had  to  oversee  the 
building  of  a  church,  a  residence  and  the  present  quar- 
ters for  the  girls'  school.  Besides  this  Mrs.  Hearn 
had  the  supervision  of  and  has  taught  in  the  girls' 
scliool,  while  Dr.  Hearn,  in  addition  to  the  supervision 
of  the  boys'  school,  has  conducted  a  dispensary  where 
nearly  a  thousand  treatments  were  given.  It  is  hard, 
therefore,  to  realize  with  what  great  joy  they  wel- 
comed Rev.  and  Mrs.  Ivan  V.  Larson  with  their  little 
boy,  and  Mrs.  Jewell  Daniel,  who  with  her  little  boy 
has  returned  to  her  beloved  "  Laiyang."  Dr.  Hearn 
says,  "  Words  cannot  express  the  joy  that  flooded  the 
hearts  of  the  two  lone  missionaries  in  this  field  over 
the  coming  of  these  strong  workers." 

The  following  from  Mrs.  Daniel  gives  still  further 
insight  into  the  work  that  is  waiting  in  Laiyang: 

"  I  want  to  tell  you  of  a  little  incident  that  happened 
yesterday  that  shows  how  cruelly  the  devil  gets  his 
work  in  sometimes.  But  first  let  me  set  the  back- 
ground for  my  picture:  Chinese  believe  that  when  a 
nursing  baby  dies  it  comes  back  home  for  three  suc- 
cessive nights  to  nurse,  sometimes  in  the  form  of  one 
small  animal  and  sometimes  in  the  form  of  another; 
usually,  I  believe,  in  the  form  of  a  mink.  Yesterday 
the  little  baby  of  a  newly  converted  woman  died.  And 
last  night,  as  the  devil  would  have  it,  late  in  the  night 
quiet,  there  came  the  dreadfuUest  noise,  just  like  the 
crying  of  a  little  baby  for  its  mother.  About  and 
around  the  house  it  went,  chilling  the  blood,  until  I 
was  so  sorry  for  the  frightened,  grieved  little  mother, 
that  I  could  but  pray  God  to  still  her  heart  and  make 


112  "  LABOREES  TOGETHEF  " 

her  know  it  was  not  her  child.  Of  course  it  was  only 
an  old  cat  on  a  midnight  prowl.  This  mother,  while 
she  was  a  heathen,  lost  a  child.  Now  be  it  known  that 
the  Chinese  believe  if  you  hury  a  little  baby,  either  no 
other  children  will  come  into  the  home,  or  else  they 
will  all  be  girls.  Hence  the  custom  of  throwing  dead 
children  to  the  dogs.  When  she  lost  her  first  child  her 
husband,  albeit  an  ignorant  one,  said  that  the  child 
must  be  buried,  and  it  was.  And  the  next  child  came 
and  was  a  girl,  who  was  soon  crippled  for  life.  Then 
this  child  came,  and  died  yesterday.  We  dug  a  little 
grave  in  the  corner  of  the  church  lot,  put  a  white  slip 
on  the  little  body,  and  buried  it  in  a  book  box.  Just 
imagine  what  the  little  mother  was  thinking  as  we  laid 
this  one  away.  *  Oh,  but  she's  a  Christian,'  you  say. 
Yes,  but  how  very  ignorant,  and  how  born,  bred  and 
nourished  on  superstitions  only  those  who  have  been 
here  a  great  many  years  can  understand,  and  I  know 
her  heart  bled  when  that  cat  began  crying  last  night. 
Her  own  mother  would  say,  '  Joseph  has  come  back  to 
nurse.' 

"  That  little  funeral  was  a  strange  sight  to  the  Chi- 
nese, who  had  never  before  seen  a  funeral  for  a  child 
under  six.  I  dare  say  it  was  the  only  one  ever  held  in 
this  city.  There  are  no  coffins  made  for  little  forms 
like  that — an  eleven-month-old  baby.  How  eagerly 
they  are  going  to  wait  to  see  if  any  more  children,  or 
girls,  are  born  to  that  home !  " 

Taian 
In  the  Taian  field  there  are,  at  least,  twenty  cities, 


THE  NORTH  CHINA  MISSION  113 

ranging  from  five  to  ten  thousand  inhabitants,  where 
the  Gospel  has  scarcely  ever  been  preached.  The  spir- 
itual condition  of  the  people  is  most  distressing.  A 
missionary  seeing  the  people  returning  from  their  tem- 
ples, where  they  had  gone  to  worship  in  hopes  of  stay- 
ing the  cholera  plague  in  Tengchow,  remarked:  "  It  is 
pitiful  to  see  the  people  going  to  their  temples,  dressed 
in  white  clothes,  the  mourning  colour,  wailing  aloud 
and  bumping  their  heads  on  the  ground  before  the 
dumb  idols,  thus  announcing  the  deaths  of  their  loved 
ones,  and  opening  the  way  for  them  to  enter  the  abode 
of  departed  spirits.  This  is  all  a  part  of  their  system 
of  ancestor  worship,  and  is  the  strongest  obstacle  to 
the  advance  of  Christianity  in  China." 

Stingsau 

Just  one  name  is  on  our  list  in  the  Stingsau  Field — 
that  of  Mrs.  S.  E.  Stephens.  Besides  the  multitudi- 
nous duties  that  fall  to  her  lot  where  she  and  her  noble 
husband  are  located,  they  together  are  accomplishing 
for  the  Master  a  vast  deal  in  the  way  of  garnered  har- 
vest with  their  "  Shantung  Evangelistic  Band."  This 
is  a  group  of  young  men  who  have  been  especially 
trained  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  E.  Stephens  and  go  with 
them  from  place  to  place  holding  meetings.  Each  of 
these  men  plays  some  musical  instrument,  and  the 
music  is  a  great  feature  of  their  work.  Mr.  Stephens' 
report  is  given  below: 

"  During  the  year  we  held  ten  evangelistic  cam- 
paigns in  the  Laichow,  Taian,  Hsintai  and  Tsingtau 
fields,  the  meetings  lasting  from  five  to  sixty  days  in 


114  ''  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

each  community.  The  Holy  Spirit  rightly  blessed  our 
labours  everywhere.  Not  only  did  we  preach  day  and 
night  to  ten  hours  each  day  in  all  these  ten  different 
centers,  but  far  out  from  these  centers  the  Word  was 
constantly  preached  in  at  least  two  hundred  villages. 
The  total  number  of  tracts  distributed  was  about 
30,000.  Mrs.  Stephens  and  the  young  men  she  has 
specially  trained  to  teach  children  had  wonderful  suc- 
cess in  every  place,  teaching  hundreds  of  children  to 
sing  Christian  songs  and  repeat  many  Scripture  verses. 
Many  of  these  children  were  very  definitely  converted. 
In  several  places  large  numbers  of  the  Government 
school  students  attended  the  meetings  for  children, 
and  were  open  to  the  Gospel  message.  All  told,  there 
were  363  who  made  open  profession  of  faith  in  Christ 
in  the  meetings  and  gave  their  names  and  addresses. 
Fully  as  many  more  manifested  deep  interest  in  the 
Gospel,  but  on  account  of  bitter  persecution  by  their 
families  and  friends,  did  not  have  the  courage  to 
openly  confess  Christ." 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  E.  Stephens  are  enthusiastic  about 
this  work  and  feel  that  all  hardships,  discouragements 
and  persecutions  are  outweighed  by  the  blessings 
which  have  attended  the  work. 

Tsinan 
Tsinan  is  the  capital  of  Shantung  Province.  It  is  a 
city  of  over  100,000  inhabitants.  While  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Evans  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lowe  are  located  there, 
we  have  not  yet  opened  up  the  work  In  full.  Certainly 
it  must  be  our  responsibility  to  give  the  Gospel  to  this 


O  ^^ 
^  O 
CO     Sfl 


o  -a 
o   c 

C/2     rt 


P3  O 


THE  NORTH  CHINA  MISSION  115 

strategic  city.  We  have  more  Baptists  in  Shantung 
Province  than  we  have  in  any  other  Province  in  China, 
yet  v^e  have  no  church  in  the  capital.  However,  one 
of  the  plans  of  the  Campaign  is  to  build  a  church  here. 

As  has  been  stated,  our  work  in  North  China  em- 
braces nine  fields.  But  seeds  sown  by  saints  in  other 
days,  who  are  now  gone  Home,  are  still  springing  up. 
In  the  western  part  of  Shantung  there  has  been  a  won- 
derful growth  in  our  work.  This  lies  over  against  the 
great  Province  of  Manchuria,  in  which  we  have  no 
organized  work  at  all.  The  Board  and  the  North 
China  Mission  have  long  planned  to  press  a  vigorous 
mission  work  amongst  the  millions  of  Chinese  in  Man- 
churia. And  even  now  Chinese  Christian  men  and 
women  are  doing  mission  work  in  Mukden,  Harbin 
and  Dalny,  all  large  cities  that  are  still  growing  rap- 
idly. The  iniquities  of  these  cities  is  unspeakable. 
"  Let  us  go  up  and  possess  the  land." 


QUESTIONS 

1.  What  great  missionary  of  sainted  memory  gave  her  life  to 

this  field?    Give  a  brief  sketch  of  her  life  and  work. 

2.  Tell  something  of  the  province  of  Shantung. 

3.  Name  our  forty  workers  in  the  North  China  Mission. 

4.  What  special  trials  face  our  workers  in  Tengchow? 

5.  Why   is   all   our   work   outside   the   city   of    Hwanghien? 

Tell  of  the  woman's  evangelistic  work  in  this  field. 

6.  What  do  you  know  of  the  Warren  Memorial  Hospital? 

7.  Tell  of  the  work  in  Pingtu. 

8.  Who  are  our  workers  in  L,aichow? 

9.  Give  a  sketch  of  the  work  there. 
10.    Give  a  sketch  of  the  wprk  in  Chefoo. 


116  "  LABOREES  TOGETHER '» 

11.  Give  Mrs,  Daniel's  story  from  the  Laiyang  field. 

12.  What  call  comes  to  your  heart  from  Taian? 

13.  Tell  of  the  Shantung  Evangelistic  Band  organized  by 

Mrs.  Stephens  of  Stingsau. 

14.  What  is  the  capital  of  Shantung?     Who  are  our  workers 

there?     Why  have  we  never  opened  the  work  in  full  in 
this  important  city? 

15.  What  have   Southern  Baptists  done   for  the  millions  in 

Manchuria? 


IX 

HER  PRIVILEGES 

"  They  helped  every  one  his  neighbour;  and  every  one  said  to 
his  brother,  be  of  good  courage"  (Isaiah  41:6). 

IN  the  preceding  chapters  we  have  given  a  cursory 
glance  at  each  of  our  China  missions.  We  have 
discovered  that  there  are  all  told  one  hundred  and 
thirty-nine  women  workers  under  the  Foreign  Mis- 
sion Board. 

"  What  are  these  among  so  many  ?  "  inquired  one 
of  faint  heart  in  the  long  ago.  And  the  response  was 
a  miracle. 

Sister  Mine,  the  same  query  has  arisen  to  your  lips 
and  mine  again  and  again  as  we  have  studied  these 
fields. 

Again  the  privilege  of  performing  a  miracle  is  given 
to  you  and  to  me,  through  Her  and  with  Her.  What 
shall  we  do  about  it  ? 

In  a  previous  lesson  we  studied  something  of  Her 
problems  Over  There.  In  this  lesson  let  us  make  note 
of  some  of  Her  privileges. 

1.  It  is  Her  privilege  to  welcome  the  dawning  of  a 
new  educational  day. 

Mandarin  is  the  language  best  known  and  most  used 
in  China.      It  is  the  language  of  official  China. 

Very  recently  the  Government  and  the  missionaries 
117 


118  ' '  LABOEERS  TOGETHER '  * 

have  united  in  introducing  a  Chinese  phonetic  system 
by  which  the  Chinese  language  has  been  reduced  from 
"up  in  the  thousands*'  to  thirty-nine  fundamental 
symbols  or  sounds.  This  is  said  to  be  easily  learned, 
thereby  removing  one  of  the  greatest  hindrances  to 
general  education.  "  The  hope  is  that  Mandarin  pho- 
netics will  presently  become  the  speech  of  all  educated 
persons,  and  the  spread  of  education  will  result  in  its 
becoming  the  national  language  of  China." 

Our  missionaries,  overburdened  as  they  are  with 
multitudinous  duties,  are  giving  themselves  whole- 
heartedly to  the  study  and  the  teaching  of  this  phonetic 
system.  There  is  quite  a  bit  of  pathos  in  that  lesson 
(Chapter  VIII)  where  Miss  Cynthia  Miller  tells  how 
she  must  needs  work  all  day,  then  teach  each  night, 
"  because  no  one  else  knows  the  phonetic  system  as 
yet." 

This  system  is  easily  learned,  however,  and  our 
missionaries  hail  with  joy  the  privilege  of  doing  away 
with  the  black  cloud  of  illiteracy.  "  In  four  days  a 
group  of  seven  native  Christian  leaders  learned  the 
system,  and  are  now  teaching  it.  In  from  three  to 
four  weeks  the  unlearned  and  unlettered  Chinese  can 
master  the  simplified  system  sufficiently  to  read." 

Chinese  value  education  most  highly  and  are  eager 
to  learn.  With  reading  and  writing  thus  simplified, 
we  have  good  reason  to  believe  that  a  better  day  is 
dawning.  The  special  committee  promoting  this  Sys- 
tem says :  "  The  re-discovery  of  the  Bible,  in  every 
age  from  the  time  of  Ezra  to  the  present  day,  has  al- 
ways resulted  in  a  revival  of  religion.    This  phonetic 


HER  PRIVILEGES  119 

writing  now  makes  it  possible  to  place  an  open  Bible, 
intelligible  to  the  humblest  of  them  all,  in  the  hands 
of  every  church  member  in  China.  A  new  and 
stronger  evangelism  will  surely  follow." 

2.  It  is  Her  privilege  to  welcome  the  new  workers 
to  the  field. 

This  She  considers  a  very  gracious  privilege.  Her 
heart  has  swelled  with  joy  unspeakable  since  the  days 
of  the  Seventy-five  Million  Campaign  gave  promise 
that  recruits  were  coming.  She  has  learned  to  call 
them  every  one  by  name.  Let  us  do  the  same  and 
share  Her  joy  in  the  acquaintanceship.  Here  is  the 
list  of  those  who  from  this  good  year  of  1920  on  hope 
to  claim  China  as  home: 

To  the  South  China  Mission:  Mrs.  A.  L.  Thomp- 
kins,  Misses  Laura  Coupland,  Mary  Alexander, 
Louise  Bomar,  Valeria  Green,  Ruth  Pettigrew,  Al- 
vada  Gunn  and  May  Morton. 

To  the  Central  China  Mission:  Mrs.  L.  B.  Olive, 
Misses  Blanche  Groves,  Bettie  Stephens  and  Eva 
Sullivan. 

To  the  Interior  China  Mission:  Mesdames  I.  D. 
Eavenson,  S.  O.  Pruitt,  Gordon  Middleton,  Joseph  T. 
Fielder,  Dr.  Mary  L.  King,  Miss  Zemma  Hare. 

To  the  North  China  Mission:  Mesdames  N.  A. 
Bryan,  J.  W.  Moore,  Miss  Dorrls  Knight. 

Let  us  follow  these  twenty-one  sisters  with  our 
prayers,  our  gifts,  our  letters,  our  love.  As  our  Part- 
ner Over  There  gave  them  the  gracious  welcome,  let 
us  give  to  old  and  new  alike  our  deep  and  abiding  in- 
terest in  all  the  coming  years. 


120       **LABOEEES  TOGETHER" 

3.  It  is  Her  privilege  to  demand  that  her  tenure 
of  service  shall  count  for  much. 

When  one  has  given  years — the  best  years — of  life 
to  a  Cause,  the  natural  sequence  is  that  She  knows 
the  Cause  intimately  and  intelligently.  When  the 
years  begin  to  lengthen,  her  steps  may  grow  feeble, 
but  her  interest  never  lags.  It  is  at  this  time  that  we 
over  here  should  guard  our  Partner  most  carefully; 
there  should  not  be  so  much  as  a  hint  of  suggestion 
that  age  is  disqualifying  Her.  The  ripe  and  mellow 
fruit  is  the  sweetest  fruit  of  all. 

Our  special  w^ork  at  this  time  is  to  provide  every 
comfort,  every  convenience  for  the  furtherance  of  the 
Cause  She  loves.  One  who  has  grown  old  on  the 
field  remarked  with  sorrow  not  long  since:  "  The  dis- 
tance from  the  station  to  a  certain  out  station  is  more 
than  five  miles.  It  was  an  easy  walk  when  I  was 
younger,  and  before  my  joints  were  stiffened  with 
rheumatism.  But  I  find  it  a  difficult  task  now.  I  know 
I  can  do  the  teaching  after  I  get  there  as  well  or  better 
than  the  younger  missionaries;  for  the  people  have 
known  me  so  long  they  like  my  ways.  I  still  go, 
though  it  takes  a  whole  day  to  do  the  work  of  what 
was  once  a  few  hours." 

And  then  with  pathos  that  was  touching  she 
added:  "  How  fine  it  would  be  if  we  only  had  an  auto- 
mobile with  which  to  do  the  Lord's  work." 

Yes,  Her  tenure  of  service  should  count  for  much. 
Let  us  see  that  Her  needs  are  supplied.  We  can  do  it 
if  we  will. 

4.  It  is  Her  privilege  to  change  Her  mind. 


HER  PRIVILEGES  121 

It  is  preeminently  true  of  the  missionary  world  that 
*'  The  old  order  changeth,  giving  place  to  the  new." 
The  plans  of  yesterday  may  not  be  the  best  plans  for 
to-morrow,  no  matter  how  carefully  they  may  have 
been  considered.  A  set  and  unalterable  opinion  is  not 
unlikely  to  become  an  obstacle  blocking  the  way  of 
progress  in  any  growing  enterprise.  Our  Partner  is 
placed  where  she  must  look  at  every  situation  from 
many  angles.  She  will  try  to  base  Her  opinions  on 
knowledge  gathered  from  every  available  source.  If 
at  times  she  seems  to  be  shifting  in  a  way  we  deem  un- 
necessary, let  us  be  patient,  be  prayerful  and  remember 
that  it  is  her  privilege  to  change  her  mind,. 

5.  It  is  Her  privilege  to  bring  heathen  women  to 
the  Saviour.  Not  only  this:  hut  to  bring  women  of 
the  strongest  character  and  greatest  native  ability,  per- 
haps  of  any  women  the  world  over. 

The  Mother  in  China  is  the  controlling  influence 
in  the  life  of  that  people.  As  fast  as  the  women  be- 
come Christians,  they  become  leaders  in  Christian 
work.  "  Those  most  competent  to  judge  predict  that 
when  the  record  of  the  present  century  shall  be  writ- 
ten, the  women  of  China  will  hold  in  it  a  high  place 
among  the  promoters  of  both  Christian  and  national 
progress." 

They  are  lovable,  too,  as  one  will  readily  recognize 
from  this  message  fresh  from  the  heart  of  Margie 
Shumate: 

"  One  thing  I  want  you  to  impress  on  the  folks  is 
that  heathen  women  are  not  horrid.  At  least  Chinese 
are  not.    Most  people  seem  to  think  heathen  are  horrid 


122  "  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE  " 

and  always  have  a  lot  of  sympathy  for  missionaries. 
They  think  it  takes  a  special  amount  of  grace  from 
God  to  love  them.  But  I  find  my  heathen  are  quite 
lovable,  at  least  the  majority  are. 

"  If  I  did  not  want  to  love  them,  some  of  them 
are  so  dear  that  I  could  not  help  it.  Many  times  when 
I  go  to  a  village  of  poor  peasants,  while  the  Bible 
woman  and  I  are  preaching  the  Gospel,  some  poor  old 
woman,  dressed  in  rags  and  tatters,  will  slip  away  and 
boil  some  sweet  potatoes  for  us,  and  bring  them  with 
a  pot  of  tea  where  we  are  talking. 

"  Most  of  thejn  are  friendly,  and  kind-hearted  and 
hospitable  and  lovable. 

"  It  is  true  that  heathen  do  many  things  that  are 
horrid  and  degrading  in  many  ways ;  they  are  ignorant 
and  superstitious.  But  my  heathen,  at  least,  are  at- 
tractive in  spite  of  it." 

6.  It  is  Her  privilege  to  have  a  furlough,  zvhich 
comes,  under  ordinary  circumstances,  once  every 
seven  years. 

Will  it  not  be  worth  our  while  to  pause  a  moment 
and  consider  whether  we  in  the  Home  Land  make  this 
furlough  a  privilege  or  a  problem  to  our  Partner? 

She  comes  back  to  the  place  that  once  knew  her 
but  which  in  the  Intervening  years  has  changed  much. 
She  has  not  grown  indifferent  to  the  "  folks  at  home  " 
but  she  doubtless  is  often  dazed  at  existing  conditions. 

She  comes  back  with  the  burden  of  multiplied  mil- 
lions of  dying  people  heavy  upon  her  heart.  We  in- 
vite her  to  conventions  and  associations,  where  pa- 
tiently she  sits  and  listens  to  long  drawn  out  discus- 


HEE  PEIYILEGES  123 

sions  on  local  matters  that  might  easily  be  set  aside 
or  dismissed  with  few  words.  And  then  she  is  asked 
to  speak  of  "  China "  for — ^half  an  hour  or  even 
less  time !  The  vastness  of  the  theme  to  her  who  un- 
derstands what  you  and  I,  who  have  never  been  there, 
cannot  possibly  understand,  is  confusing  to  say  the 
least.  From  the  multitude  of  matters  she  would  like 
to  present,  it  is  most  difficult  to  select  what  is  best  to 
give  in  so  short  a  time.  She  often  weeps  aftervv^ard 
because  she  feels  that  she  has  failed  to  represent  her 
Cause  to  the  best  advantage. 

Her  furlough  should  be  a  time  of  physical,  mental 
and  spiritual  rest.  What  the  sabbatical  year  was  to 
the  ancient  Hebrew  this  year  should  be  to  our  mission- 
ary of  to-day. 

There  are  many  ways  in  which  we  can  and  do  make 
of  Her  furlough  a  problem.  There  are  fully  as  many 
ways  in  which  we  can  make  of  it  a  blessed  privilege. 
Let  us  choose  wisely  for  Her  sweet  sake. 

7.  It  is  Her  privilege  to  make  known  to  us  Her 
needs. 

When  our  boys  were  in  the  training  camps  and  later 
in  the  trenches  of  war-torn  France  there  was  not  one 
of  us  who  did  not  count  it  a  privilege  and  a  joy  to 
spend  hours  and  dollars  lavishly  in  supplying  their 
needs. 

Similar  motives  should  lead  us  in  the  Home  Land  to 
supply  every  possible  material  to  make  the  work  of  our 
Partner  over  there  effective.  "  Nothing  in  the  way 
of  good  equipment  is  too  good  for  the  missionary." 
Here  is  a  partial  list  of  articles  that  she  should  be 


124  "  LABOEEES  TOQETHEE  " 

supplied  with.  If  each  missionary  society  within  the 
bounds  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention  would 
undertake  the  work  of  furnishing  just  one  article  for 
just  one  missionary,  how  easily  would  these  needs  be 
met!  How  happy  would  we  be  in  the  meeting  of 
them !  How  thankful  even  to  overflowing  would  her 
heart  be  in  receiving  them ! 

Hospital  supplies,  in  the  way  of  bandages,  com- 
presses, sheets,  blankets,  towels,  pajamas,  etc. 

Traveller's  Medicine  Case.  Folding  Rubber  or 
Canvas  Bath  Tub.  Canvas  Tent.  Folding  Army  Cot. 
Baby  Organ.  Victrola  and  Records.  Bicycle.  Fold- 
ing Camera.  Small  Typewriter.  Fountain  Pen. 
Compact  Toilet  Case.  Compact  Writing  Pad. 
Mimeograph.  Wrist  Watch.  Small  Alcohol  Lamp. 
Flash  Light.  Kindergarten  Materials.  Cloth  for 
New  Dress.  Ford  Car.  "  Soap  and  more  Soap,"  says 
one.  "  Books  and  more  Books,"  says  another.  And 
this  last  plea  reminds  us  of  the  dear  little  woman  in 
the  far-away  field  who  was  looking  forward  to  the 
promised  Christmas  book  with  such  longing ;  yet  when 
it  came  and  proved  to  be  a  discussion  on  Paul's  The- 
ology— well,  she  did  as  you  or  I  would  have  done — 
she  cried.  She  said,  "  Doesn't  she  know  that  I  have 
not  seen  a  book  of  good  fiction  in  four  years?"  A 
good  many  missionaries  feel  the  same  way.  "  When 
we  find  that  we  must  forget  the  misery  about  us,  and 
must  forget  our  own  problems  for  a  little  while,  we 
are  often  driven  to  reading — for  perhaps  the  fourth 
or  fifth  time — some  book  of  Dickens  or  Van  Dyke; 
yet  the  desire  is  often  strong  for  something  more  con- 


A  Missionary  Enjoying  her  Library  on  a  Cold  Snowy  Day 
(Few  Missionaries  have  the  Privilege  of  a  Library) 


HER  PRIVILEGES  126 

nected  with  affairs  of  to-day.  And  there  is  never  a 
library  and  there  is  nowhere  one  may  borrow." 

Let  us  henceforth  see  to  it  that  our  special  Partner 
receives  the  yearly  subscription  of  two  or  three  stand- 
ard magazines ;  that  copies  of  the  latest  books  that  are 
worth  while  are  sent  to  her  as  soon  as  they  come  from 
the  press. 

Our  Partner  rarely  ever  makes  request  for  the 
above  mentioned  articles.  She  hungers  for  them  in 
silence.  But  there  is  one  need  that  she  feels  such  an 
unutterable  longing  for  that  she  never  fails  to  cry  out 
for  it:  That  is  the  prayers  of  the  Home  Land.  Are 
we  failing  Her  there? 

8.  We  bring  to  a  close  the  chapter  and  the  book 
with  a  brief  allusion  to  this  final  privilege:  The  Com" 
panionship  of  the  Saviour  becomes  very  near  and  very 
precious  to  Her. 

One  just  recovering  from  the  awful  ravages  of 
cholera  writes:  "The  experience  has  been  worth 
while;  for  never  before  has  the  Lord  seemed  so  real 
to  me  as  during  these  past  ten  days." 

Let  us  bow  our  heads  reverently  as  we  read  this 
paragraph  from  the  diary  of  Miss  Julia  Meadows, 
written  at  the  close  of  a  day's  work. 

"Another  day  has  gone!  Not  half  has  been  done 
that  was  planned  for  this  day.  And  so  the  months 
and  the  years  go  by.  Why,  it  seems  but  a  few  days 
since  New  Year,  and  we  are  really  facing  the  end  of 
another  year.  Never  before  has  my  Father  given  me 
such  a  full  year  of  soul-service,  nor  so  filled  my  life 
with  Himself.     What  does  it  matter  if  others  turn 


126  "  LABOEEES  TOGETHEE '» 

away  so  long  as  He  is  with  me?  and  He  whispers, 
so  gently,  '  I  am  with  you  alway.' 

"  As  I  consider  the  way  Thou  hast  lead  Thy  child, 
my  heart  can  but  sing  songs  of  praise  to  Thy  Holy 
Name.  I  thank  Thee,  Father,  that  Thou  art  more 
pleased  with  the  obedience  of  Thy  children  than  with 
any  service  they  can  render,  or  with  any  sacrifice  they 
can  make.  Thou  wouldst  have  every  child  of  Thine 
conformed  into  Thine  own  Image  come  by  the  fol- 
lowing of  Thy  Son  even  to  death. 

"  Let  me  never  falter  whatever  may  come.  I  ask 
Thee  to-night,  to  give  my  heart  that  steadfastness  of 
purpose,  that  shall  dare  to  please  God  rather  than 
man,  until  the  end.  Let  me  not  be  discouraged  when 
there  are  no  visible  results.  All  members  of  Thy  Body 
have  not  the  same  office  and  what  would  be  progress 
to  one  may  not  be  progress  to  another.  Let  me  ever 
remember  there  are  some  whose  duty  it  is  to  wait  for 
God.  Let  me  spend  more  time  with  Thee  alone,  re- 
membering that  '  all  things  that  have  stirred  the  world 
have  come  from  within.'  The  glory  came  from  within 
and  transfigured  our  Master,  as  He  prayed. 

"  Thou  canst  only  use  what  we  give.  Take  my  little 
all! 

"  For  Jesus'  sake.    Amen." 


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